#12292 Discussing Catholic Psychology with Dr. Greg Bottaro - Dr. Greg Bottaro

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“How does mental illness connect to spirituality and healing?” In this episode, we explore the intricate relationship between mental health and faith, addressing questions like the role of inherited genes in mental illness and spirituality, the Church’s stance on electric shock treatment for depression, and the spiritual aspects of OCD. Tune in for a thoughtful examination of these important topics.

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Questions Covered:

20:25 – How do we look at inherited genes when it comes to mental illness and spirituality?
31:38 – How does the Church feel about electric shock treatment? Is it helpful for people with depression?
35:40 – I have a son with schizophrenia, and I’ve been looking for someone to help connect the spiritual and physical.
42:25 – Is there a spiritual component to OCD, if so can someone heal from it?
47:03 – I’ve had mental problems that the doctors have said there is no solution for. What do you recommend?
50:58 – How does generational trauma end?

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0:49.0	How will we get at this?
0:49.9	And sometimes people are, they call up and they ask questions like this.
0:54.4	Well, I don't know, my psychiatrist said I should take this anti-psychotic or antidepressant or whatever the medicine is.
1:02.4	And I don't know if I should do that or does that show a lack of faith and that kind of thing.
1:07.7	Or we get people who clearly have have psychiatric issues who spiritualize them or
1:14.9	we have people who don't believe in spiritual problems they think everything is a psychological problem
1:22.3	everything is a matter of learning or therapy and since spiritual problems are of a different sort,
1:30.5	things like repentance and confession and communion don't seem to them to address the core of
1:38.0	the issues. So we decided Dr. Greg Bataro would be a really good guy to ask about the intersection of these things.
1:45.3	What is psychological?
1:47.3	What is psychiatric?
1:50.1	And what is spiritual?
1:53.2	And can we make clear, is it possible to make those fine distinctions or is it not possible?
2:00.0	Dr. Greg Bataro is a Catholic psychologist. He's the
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