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Offline bookofbirds

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Therapy for TradCaths
« on: April 07, 2025, 02:23:15 PM »
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  • Have any of you done therapy before? Did it help you? 
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    Re: Therapy for TradCaths
    « Reply #1 on: April 07, 2025, 04:54:26 PM »
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  • through prayer I believe our Lord gave me my answer. Psychoanalysis is a recent modern invention devoid of spirituality. to paraphrase Archbishop Sheen psychologists can diagnose all they want but never get to the root cause of mental illness: sin. Going to adoration and confession would offer more healing than therapy. 
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    Re: Therapy for TradCaths
    « Reply #2 on: April 07, 2025, 05:23:13 PM »
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  • Not all "therapy"  entails Freudian/Jungian psychoanalysis.

    There's a Dr. Guarendi (EWTN) who's pretty solid (at least in terms of Catholic common-sense principles), and I know a Traditional Catholic psychologist in the Akron OH area (atttends my chapel), who also has a very Catholic perspective on the matter.

    So, it depends on what you need, what you're looking for, etc.  Sometimes "therapy" might consist of just talking through problems with someone (whether a psychologist or even a priest) and sometimes just talking it out helps you work out some issues.  I find that even at work, when I'm programming, that I'm stuck with some problem but then decide to get on a meeting with someone to go through it and the solution presents itself withint minutes as soon as I start verbally (and out loud) explaining the problem.  I think that the brain just sometimes works a bit different when you have to explain something or articulate it out loud vs. just turning it over in your own head.

    By way of example, "therapy" for married couples who are having issues doesn't really entail psychoanalysis at all (for the most part), but simply entails talking through various issues and conflicts with a third-party arbitrator attempting to objectively sift through any biases, inaccuracies, etc. and potentially arbitrating some compromise solutions and ways to work things out.  When a couple have gotten entrenched in some conflct, they often lose sight of objective reality but views things from the perspective of whateve rmindset or attitude they habitually slid into.

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    Re: Therapy for TradCaths
    « Reply #3 on: April 07, 2025, 05:23:46 PM »
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  • I have not personally, but I was recommended this book for a family member and it was fantastic. 



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    Re: Therapy for TradCaths
    « Reply #4 on: April 07, 2025, 05:29:02 PM »
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  • through prayer I believe our Lord gave me my answer. Psychoanalysis is a recent modern invention devoid of spirituality. to paraphrase Archbishop Sheen psychologists can diagnose all they want but never get to the root cause of mental illness: sin. Going to adoration and confession would offer more healing than therapy.

    Perhaps the answer to your prayer came in the form of two responses that came in shortly after you posted this.

    "Therapy", depending on how you define it, is not inherently anti- or even non-Catholic.  Grace perfects nature, and out natures can benefit from various therapeutic activities, and not all therapy entails Freudian/Jungian psychoanalysis that eliminates the role of free will almost entirely.  Yet ... there's no question that experiences, physiology / biolchemistry, etc. can have an affect on some of these conditions, and some conditions can become so debilitating that they impede the operation of gace, since grace works best with a healthy/intact natural state.


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    Re: Therapy for TradCaths
    « Reply #5 on: April 07, 2025, 11:04:36 PM »
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  • Have any of you done therapy before? Did it help you?
    I have had autism for my entire life and was recently unofficially diagnosed with ADHD, though I have all the symptoms. (my mother was an active nurse when I was born and vaccinated me with all of the "required" vaccines so I think that's what caused my conditions) As such, my development was a bit slower compared to other children around me, and I have been in therapy for my entire life. I think speech therapy, physical therapy, behavioral therapy, and occupational therapy are all compatible with Catholic doctrine, since there's nothing really cognitive involved, other than things related to basic functioning in occupational therapy. Psychological therapy, which I assume is the one you're talking about, is much more tricky. It really depends on the therapist and their approach to their patients, and their content and methods, etc. I've had therapy like that for the last 2-3 years, and I think it has benefitted me in a lot of ways, my tics are greatly reduced, and my focus and concentration have gotten better. A lot of psychology is directly related to atheistic false scientific values, but I believe that it's still possible for psychological therapy to be compatible with Catholic teaching. The problem is that most "Catholic" therapists are just Novus Ordo, which greatly affects their psychoanalytic benefits, especially when dealing problems related to the Faith. If anything, Novus Ordo therapists could be dangerous to you, and not beneficial, since most of them will by into the falsities of modern psychology. Nonetheless, I think it's still possible for psychological therapy to truly help people without contradicting Traditional Catholicism, you just have to be careful.

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    Re: Therapy for TradCaths
    « Reply #6 on: April 08, 2025, 01:09:31 PM »
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  • Psychoanalysis is a dinosaur. 

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    Re: Therapy for TradCaths
    « Reply #7 on: April 08, 2025, 01:41:38 PM »
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  • I dont know who's been downvoting on this thread, I think it's a valid question.
    A lot of psychology is pseudoscience but some intervention may work, depends on what you need. I think CBT works for some people. It's not really the therapist "curing " you but just maybe rewire some of the thought process to be more positive. 
    Also here's this: https://tradcatdia.substack.com/p/catholic-psychology-self-help-guide
    Just something that I think may help. 
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