Psychomoralitics
The Catholic, Soul-Deep Approach to Mental Well-Being
Living a fully Catholic life is impossible without addressing the serious—and often subtle—spiritual and psychological harms inflicted by our contemporary culture of moral relativism, material abundance, and technological advancement. Psychomoralitics is a completely Catholic approach to spiritual direction and mental well-being that enables a person to recognize and overcome these challenges by making concrete cognitive and behavioral changes in their lives.
Psychomoralitics is not mindfulness. Conventional psychotherapy and medication, along with the contemporary fads of mindfulness, self-help, and life coaching—even when advertised as Catholic—aspire to the superficial and ultimately unCatholic goal of making practitioners "feel good” by means of coping mechanisms and by treating symptoms instead of causes. This is a philosophy divorced from the reality of objectivity, nature, egoistic pride, suffering, and sound medical science. Psychomoralitics, alternatively, brings its therapants to a superlative human flourishing, where the curse of disordered passions and an inability to cope superficially becomes the blessing of a deep and modulated sensitivity and the ability to be fully open and responsive to reality. Psychomoralitics entails soul-searching and soul-searing interpersonal dialogue that leads to ensuing actions that increase maturity, clarify insight, and instill the courage to live and love fully.
Pyschomoralitics is for everyone. Psychomoralitics is not "Catholic therapy"; although psychomoralitics is rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, a person does not need to profess the Catholic faith in order to benefit from psychomoralitics' approach to human nature and flourishing. Nor is it, strictly speaking, "therapy." Although individuals and couples can work with a psychomoral practitioner in a clinical setting, the principles of psychomoralitics can be adopted by anyone at any time seeking deeper spiritual growth and maturity.
Psychomoralitics is predicated on two simple truths.
Psychomoralitics is not mindfulness. Conventional psychotherapy and medication, along with the contemporary fads of mindfulness, self-help, and life coaching—even when advertised as Catholic—aspire to the superficial and ultimately unCatholic goal of making practitioners "feel good” by means of coping mechanisms and by treating symptoms instead of causes. This is a philosophy divorced from the reality of objectivity, nature, egoistic pride, suffering, and sound medical science. Psychomoralitics, alternatively, brings its therapants to a superlative human flourishing, where the curse of disordered passions and an inability to cope superficially becomes the blessing of a deep and modulated sensitivity and the ability to be fully open and responsive to reality. Psychomoralitics entails soul-searching and soul-searing interpersonal dialogue that leads to ensuing actions that increase maturity, clarify insight, and instill the courage to live and love fully.
Pyschomoralitics is for everyone. Psychomoralitics is not "Catholic therapy"; although psychomoralitics is rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, a person does not need to profess the Catholic faith in order to benefit from psychomoralitics' approach to human nature and flourishing. Nor is it, strictly speaking, "therapy." Although individuals and couples can work with a psychomoral practitioner in a clinical setting, the principles of psychomoralitics can be adopted by anyone at any time seeking deeper spiritual growth and maturity.
Psychomoralitics is predicated on two simple truths.
- Every human person is made in the Image of God
- The human person can only reflect that Image of God—and thus truly flourish—when he runs toward Christ Crucified.