Welcome to Episode 7 of the Being Human Podcast: Did He Say "Dialogic"?

In this episode, we talk about:

• The need for treatment that is more than just “one-size-fits-all”
• The word “Dialogic”
• The foundation of healthy and effective dialogue
• The benefits of healthy and effective dialogue

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Gaudium et Spes
• Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyla
• To learn more about IDDM, offered by the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.
• To read the...

Welcome to Episode 6 of the Being Human Podcast: Announcing IDDM

 In this episode, we talk about:

• The launch of IDDM - the new model created by the CatholicPsych Institute
• How the humanity of Christ reveals to us how to be human
• That it is fundamentally good to be human and have emotions

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine”...

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Being Human Podcast: The Frame

 In this episode, we talk about:

• The kind of life we were created for
• The current frame of secular psychotherapy
• The difference it could make to have daily interaction between therapist and patient as a part of daily life

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• “Christ reveals man to himself and makes his divine calling clear.” - Redemptor Hominis
• To learn more about therapy offered by the CatholicPsych Institute, click...

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Being Human Podcast: How Did We Get Here?

 In this episode, we talk about:

• Understanding the human person through Church Fathers like St. Augustine
• Mistakes being the way we grow
• The historical development of psychotherapy
• The need for a shift in how therapy is delivered

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• The Confessions of St. Augustine
• Sigmund Freud
• Carl Rogers
• To learn more about therapy offered by the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.
• To read the...

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Being Human Podcast: Where is God in Psychology? 

 In this episode, we talk about:

• The place for God in the field of Psychology
• God as the agent of change in our lives
• The need for God to reveal to us what it means to be human.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• To learn more about therapy offered by the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.
• To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
• For more resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

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Welcome to Episode 2 of the Being Human Podcast: The Human Blueprint 

 In this episode, we talk about:

• How good it is that you exist!
• The need for a blueprint of what a “human being” is
• The error in worshipping at the altar of “science”
• Flaws in the secular field of psychotherapy

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Dr. Peter Kreeft on Moral Relativism
• To learn more about therapy offered by the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.
• To read the...

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Being Human Podcast: The Beginning 

 In this episode, we talk about:

• What “Being Human” means
• Dr. Greg Bottaro’s personal journey to becoming a psychotherapist
• The conversation that is needed about a Catholic vision of psychotherapy

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Dr. Peter Kreeft
• Franciscan University of Steubenville
• Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
• Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR
• Divine Mercy University (formerly Institute for the...

Introducing the Being Human Podcast from Dr. Gregory Bottaro and the CatholicPsych Institute! It's a year of big changes from CatholicPsych, one of which is this podcast - tune in to hear all the news!

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My wife gave birth to our first son, Elijah. This event has turned my life upside down.

What I thought I knew before was only a shadow of knowledge, and what I felt before was only a shadow of feeling. I have been hesitant to blog about this up until now because I was paralyzed by the fact that I could never capture the beauty and mystery and intoxication and sheer terror of bringing a new human life into the world.

I have come to peace with my literary inadequacy though, and don’t...