Towards a Theology of Psychotherapy: The Spirituality of Wendy Robinson

Wendy Robinson (1934–2013) was a trained psychotherapist who became a member of the Russian Orthodox Church in England in 1980. To be able to combine these two vocations was, for her, to discover herself. She practised psychotherapy both with individual clients and, increasingly, with religious communities, both Catholic and Anglican, giving retreats and one-to-one counselling, and built up a strong and lasting connection with the Sisters of the Love of God in Oxford. She reflected on her dual vocation in lectures and articles, a selection of which are published in the companion volume to this book, Cosmos Crisis and Christ: Essays of Wendy Robinson, collected and edited by Andrew Louth, Fairacres Publications 211 (SLG Press, 2024)

Andrew Louth, an archpriest of the Orthodox Church, is professor emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at Durham University, having earlier taught in Oxford University and Goldsmiths (University of London). On retirement as professor, he became visiting professor at the Amsterdam Centre of Eastern Orthodox Theology at the Free University, Amsterdam, and continues his association as an honorary fellow of the (now) Orthodox Theological Institute at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Among his publications are Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology, Greek East and Latin West: the Church AD 681–1071, Maximus the Confessor, and The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition.