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Fr. Chad Ripperger PhD on modern psychology and the nature of mental illness
Taken from "Introduction to the Science of Mental Health"


"
Psychology did not start down the road which led it to a view which is incompatible with any sound understanding of man. Franz Brentano, who is considered by some to be the father of modern psychology, used Aristotle as the basis of his psychology. However, shortly after Brentano did his work, the psychological community went another direction by embracing an anthropology and method which had a very different view of the nature of man. The psychological community embraced writers such as Freud, Jung and Watson whose view of man was not much more than materialistic and whose theories, even though often touted as “scientific,” had very little basis in an empirical method or in sound philosophy…"

“Mental health is a quality residing in the possible intellect which renders the faculty capable of acting according to its proper nature, i.e. rationally Therefore, mental illness is “a lack of due quality or a defect residing in the possible intellect which renders the faculty incapable of acting according to its proper nature, i.e. the intellect cannot act rationally.”

"One of the effects of Original Sin is the disordering of the human faculties, so that the appetites rule the soul, and the intellect falsely “reasons” that whatever the appetites want is true and good. Actual sin also darkens the intellect so that it cannot form proper judgments about the truth. But besides this, the actions of others (like family members) have a significant effect on mental health, besides other spiritual causes like angels and God."

"The goal of any science of
psychology must, by its very nature, be to arrive at the causes of mental health and illness. But this presupposes knowledge of the intellect itself as well as those faculties which may have some influence on the intellect. Moreover, it is apparent that modern psychology has not fully grasped the nature of the intellect itself since it has not been able to provide an accurate or complete definition of mental illness."

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Fr. Chad A. Ripperger
"Introduction to the Science of Mental Health"

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