Hill Jonathan
Faculty of philosophy, University of Oxford, UK.
J Med Biogr. 2010 Feb;18(1):49-56. doi: 10.1258/jmb.2009.009056.
Evagrius Ponticus was one of the most important and influential spiritual writers in the early Christian church. This author argues that he suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder: in particular, the demonic 'thoughts' which he repeatedly describes meet all the criteria for obsessions. If this is true, it offers a new perspective on the relation between pastoral theology and psychiatric disorders: the spiritual tradition which Evagrius helped found may, as a result, have tended to exacerbate such symptoms in others, but it also possessed the resources to address them in a practical way.
埃瓦格里乌斯·庞蒂库斯是早期基督教教会中最重要、最具影响力的精神作家之一。这位作者认为他患有强迫症：特别是，他反复描述的恶魔般的“想法”符合强迫症的所有标准。如果这是真的，它为牧师神学与精神疾病之间的关系提供了一个新的视角：埃瓦格里乌斯帮助创立的精神传统可能因此倾向于在其他人身上加剧此类症状，但它也拥有以实际方式解决这些症状的资源。
