New scientific findings bring forth knowledge that for a holistic treatment and health of a pacient, besides physical and psychological treatment, it is necessary to treat the spiritual level of the pacient also. Although the spiritual level is often neglected as a possible scientific interest, in the fields of medicine, psychology, philosophy, anthropology and theology, in the last 50 years, a new turning point has been achieved in studying man as a being and accepting his spiritual dimension. Simultaneous to those studies that reveal that numerous illnesses are caused on the dimension of spirit, in Croatia, hagiotherapy was developed, as a model for anthropological medicine. Hagiotherapy is an affirmative answer to those scientific results and its object of studyis man's spiritual soul. At the beginning of this paperwork, the concept of hagiotherapy, it's course of development and it's place in relation to other sciences will be elaborated. It will also be shown how implementation of religious factors is benefitial in achieving man's overall health. Afterwards, the law of spiritual dimension and spiritual pathology will be presented, as will diagnosis and types of therapy be, in relation to the demanded profile of the hagiotherapist. At the end, the benefits of hagiotherapy as a method for the profession of social work, will be demonstrated.