Integrating Faith and Psychiatry w/ Dr. Christin McIntyre

Restore The Glory Podcast

Jake Khym

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jake and Bob are joined by psychiatrist Dr. Christin McIntyre to discuss spiritual warfare and mental health. They discuss the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas on human psychology and why learning about how our minds were created to work helps us spiritually and emotionally. Dr. Christin also discusses the importance of hope in prayer, what constrains our ability to love, and the role of repentance in mental health.

Key Points:

Prayer is transformed when we focus on hope instead of worry
When we pray with hopes, we pray for the deep desires of our hearts. Real deep desire is suffering and can feel like Purgatory on earth
Fear and anger constrain the heart's ability to love
Spiritual warfare principles can provide valuable insights into mental health
Both physical surroundings and spiritual beings (whether angelic or demonic) affect mental health
Change involves a conscious act of the will and it can take time for our emotions to “feel” the results of these acts
Understanding the nature of how our minds were created as human beings helps us navigate emotional challenges and can lead to healing
We must cooperate with God’s grace to be transformed

Resources:

Mount Angel Abbey YouTube Channel
Dr. Christin’s Lectures on Thomistic Psychology (Part 1) (Part 2)
Introduction to the Science of Mental Health by Fr. Chad Ripperger

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0:00.0	Welcome to Restore the Glory podcast.
0:07.0	My name is Jake Kim.
0:12.0	And I'm Bob Schutz.
0:13.0	We're two Catholic therapists sharing what we've learned personally and professionally to help you on the journey of restoration.
0:20.0	If you've been blessed by our podcast,
0:22.2	please prayerfully consider partnering with us on Patreon.
0:25.1	Your support will help cover the cost to produce the podcast,
0:28.3	but will also give you access to exclusive content
0:31.4	like monthly reflections and special live stream teachings.
0:35.4	Go to patreon.com slash restore the glory and join the mission of
0:40.9	experiencing the restoration of our God-given glory.
0:48.5	Hey Bob. Good to see you once again. How are you doing today? You're a little bit under the weather.
0:55.0	I'm a little bit under the weather. So everybody may have to put up with my scratchy voice. You know what? It's more
1:00.2	radio. Your voice is more radio than it usually is. It's very nice. Yeah, it's really good. Good job.
1:05.1	Your bass is up and everything sounded sharp. Bob, our guest today, we're finishing up the series that we've been doing
1:12.4	on, I don't even know what we're going to call this, but we never do, but on the integration
1:17.4	of medicine and psychology and Catholicism, maybe, I don't know, anyway, we'll figure that
1:23.9	about healing in medicine. Yeah, that's the one I was looking for.
1:27.7	Yeah, that works great.
1:28.9	And I'll let you introduce our guests, but, man, I've looked forward to this episode.
1:33.9	We were pre-chatting before we turned on the mics, and we started to get into it.
1:38.6	I was like, no, no, slow down.
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