Forgiveness (Discourses in Metapsychiatry Series) by Thomas Hora

by Thomas Hora

Discourses in Metapsychiatry is a series of twelve titles discussing theimplications of spiritual values for psychotherapy and health ingeneral. In Forgiveness Dr. Thomas Hora comments on the nature offorgiveness, compassion, compulsions and healing the past. Dr. Horaaddresses the evolution of seeing, the eye of wisdom and meditation andmind-fasting.About The Thomas Hora, whose counseling practice in New York City spanned close tofifty years, was a brilliant psychiatrist, a God-centered spiritualseeker, and a pioneer researcher of consciousness. His work makes alasting contribution to the fields of psychiatry, religion andmetaphysics. Dr. Hora's compassion for human suffering inspired him toseek beyond conventional medical practices for the healing of illnesses,mental disorders, problems and difficulties. Observing as a psychiatristthat traditional forms of treatment did not always make a patient well,he began to explore spiritually enlightened teachings to uncover whatknowledge lay within them which could bring individuals to healing andsalvation - in the here and now. He discovered a system of thought and amethodology which was born out of his deep understanding of human natureand out of a devoted search for the truth. Gradually, he transcended thepractice of traditional psychiatry as he came to see that the solutionsto all problems - physical, emotional, mental, experiential - are foundin the realm of the spiritual, in other words, solely in the context ofGod, which is perfect Love, perfect Intelligence, and perfect Life.

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First published June 1, 1983

About the author

Thomas Hora (January 25, 1914 - October 30, 1995) is considered the founder of the discipline of metapsychiatry, an attempt to integrate principles from metaphysics, spirituality, and psychology.

After growing up in northern Hungary, Dr. Hora received medical degrees from Royal Hungarian University in Budapest in 1942, and from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1945. He performed his residency in psychiatry at Budapest General Hospital and Carlsbad City Hospital in Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia. In 1952, Dr. Hora established private practices in New York City and in Bedford Village, New York. For the next fifteen years, he was active in professional psychiatric circles in the U.S. and in Europe, and published several articles. In 1958, in recognition of his contributions to his field, he received the Karen Horney Award for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.