From the Editors

Integratus is now in its third year of publication. We are learning that the “integration” of psychotherapy and counseling with Catholic thought and practices does not mean that there is only one way to go about it. As the current issue demonstrates, we can see that some of the articles in this journal resemble articles that would appear in any journal devoted to psychotherapy. Others, however, are more specific to the CPA’s mission. In this issue, we have a quantitative study by Sarah Dennis and Savannah Vetterly dealing with ways in which fathers have an impact on the religiosity of their children. There are two theoretical pieces, one coming from a psychoanalytical approach (Shasha Kleinsorge and Karen Klein Villa), the other addressing “externalization” in psychotherapy and bringing in some of the thought of Michel Foucault to explicate what externalization can mean (Stephanie Zepeda and Steven Loredo). Then there is a critical reflection synthesizing Somatic Emotions Training (SET) with a Thomistic understanding of the passions (Daniel R. Roberson and Jesse Hinde). It might be better to think of “integration” not as a way to mix together psychotherapy and Catholic thought, but as the boundary of a sphere within which the two encounter each other and learn from each other. There are many ways to strive for integration, and one way may be close or distant to other ways. We do not know the size of this sphere, but it appears to be vast. Perhaps like the universe within which we live, the integration sphere expands as the work of integration proceeds.