So what's the deal with seeing a modern therapist?  I thought for a long time that whatever disciplines involved in mental health were contrary to Catholic teaching because they regarded the mind as silent observer to the passions of the flesh and disregarded the notion of an immortal soul.

Where I live the priests are all juggling parishes and various duties and don't have time for providing spiritual direction to their parishioners outside of the weekly Confessional because there is so much work and so few healthy priests available, so now I hear of priests recommending people to specifically Catholic therapists.  As I understand it, they are expected to meet the Mass attendance requirements of any Catholic, and are also to declare their obedience to all Catholic teachings in order to be considered Catholic.

People should avoid psychiatrists, therapists, etc.
Even the "Catholic" ones should be avoided.
Their ideas are BASED on heresy and evil.


Down the centuries, Catholics had nothing to do with all of this evil.
They were far better off because of that.
Also, if a Catholic is troubled in their soul, then it is the soul that must be helped.

These psychiatrists also have a tendancy to cause people to be locked up in mental hospitals, if they consider it appropriate.


Get help from valid traditional Catholic priests, the Sacraments, and the Rosary.

Pray to Our Lady to help you.

Prayer is the best medicine for both mental and physiological afflictions, this is true: Christ our Lord is truly, as a Medieval Hymn hails Him, "Cælestis medicina Patris," and His Blessed Mother is truly "Salus infirmorum," as the Litany of Loretto lauds her.

However, there are some individuals who are in need of professional help from a trained psychiatrist or a counselor, and traditional Priests are not competent enough to adequately deal with certain interior souls whose scruples and other sorts of vexations related to the interior life have, in fact, a neuro-chemical or psychological origin, that in itself has nothing to do with the question of conscience or morality, since these individuals cannot help the various neurological and/or situational factors that cause or further exacerbate certain mental or emotional aberrations.

Traditional Priests who are called to the pastoral ministry (for not all Priests are called to such an apostolate, and, as it is painfully obvious in our days, not all of them are fit for such a life) are not necessarily trained to deal with questions of abnormal [empirical] psychology or paraphilias (since matters concerning the 6th and 9th Commandments are what takes up most of a Father Confessor's time with the penitent, and our age is the age of aberrant sɛҳuąƖ deviancy).

It is a very complex and urgent question for our times.

- Hobbles