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Article: Scandal renews resistance to psychology: Jesuit defends assessment in spiritual direction. (Church In Crisis).(Franco Imoda)(Interview)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 2, 2002
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The rector of Rome's prestigious Gregorian University, a Jesuit identified perhaps more than any other figure in the Catholic church with the use of psychology in spiritual formation, has strongly defended the practice in a July 9 interview with NCR.
The comments come during the countdown to a Vatican investigation of American seminaries and religious houses of formation, in which the use and abuse of psychological evaluation is expected to be a major bone of contention.
"If we take secular psychology blindly, it's inadequate," said Jesuit Fr. Franco Imoda. "But if we believe [psychology] has nothing to say to us because we already have everything in ...