Ep. 129 - Emotions, Repression, Affirmation, Sexual Healing, Anna Terruwe & Conrad Baars w/ Jeff Mazzone
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Episode Description
This episode of Physically Spiritual is a conversation with Catholic Counselor Jeff Mazzone. He shares his journey from the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal to the vocation of marriage and the apostolate of Catholic psychotherapy. We discuss the integration of St. Thomas Aquinas and Sigmund Freud by Catholic psychiatrists Anna Terruwe and Conrad Baars. We contrast true affirmation with unconditional positive regard and attunement, and highlight how to find a counselor that integrates Dr. Anna Terruwe's approach.
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Catechism References from Episode
“The term "passions" belongs to the Christian patrimony. Feelings or passions are emotions or movements of the sensitive appetite that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagined to be good or evil.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1763. - https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P5V.HTM
“The passions are natural components of the human psyche; they form the passageway and ensure the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind. Our Lord called man's heart the source from which the passions spring.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1764. - https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P5V.HTM
“Strong feelings are not decisive for the morality or the holiness of persons; they are simply the inexhaustible reservoir of images and affections in which the moral life is expressed. Passions are morally good when they contribute to a good action, evil in the opposite case. the upright will orders the movements of the senses it appropriates to the good and to beatitude; an evil will succumbs to disordered passions and exacerbates them. Emotions and feelings can be taken up into the virtues or perverted by the vices.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1768. - https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P5W.HTM
“Moral perfection consists in man's being moved to the good not by his will alone, but also by his sensitive appetite, as in the words of the psalm: ‘My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.’” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1770. - https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P5W.HTM
“For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: ‘Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent.’” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1770. - https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P6C.HTM
“Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1735. - https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P5N.HTM
Time Stamps
00:00 Intro & Jeff’s Story
07:45 Affirmation v. Unconditional Positive Regard
09:05 Dr. Anna Terruwe & Dr. Conrad Baars
18:26 Personal Wholeness v. Repressive Conformity
31:21 Emotional Repression
38:30 Affirmation
42:45 Therapeutic Relationship, Attunement & Affirmation
49:10 Psychic Rebirth & Deprivation Neurosis
52:42 Mortification Therapy
63:15 Finding True Affirmation
68:10 Affirmation, Prayer & Forgiveness
72:00 Finding an Affirming Counselor
