Passion is the sickly state of the soul, that draws a man to violation of commandments, mixes to follow by Christ. How to get rid from tyranny of pride, vanity, dejection, anger? Why heard the confession in the same sins, we can not with them manage? With these questions a journalist Leonid Виноградов appealed not to the priests, and to leading Orthodoxs to the psychologists. In conversations with them eight basic passions open up in unexpected foreshortening - from the point of view of christian psychology. And it appears that the sinful states often parasitize on our complexes and heartfelt traumas, and unsolved psychological problems can become a serious obstacle on a spiritual way.