G.C. Dilsaver
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| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Psychomoralitics, Philosophy, Theology, Marriage and Family, Gender, Sociopolitics |
| Known for | Father of Christian Psychology; Developer of Psychomoralitics; Advancement of traditional family and God-given gender charisms and roles. |
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Dr. G.C. Dilsaver is a psychologist and theologian with an advanced degree from the Pontifical Institute of Marriage and Family. According to the Catholic University of America "Dr. G.C. Dilsaver's book Imago Dei Psychotherapy (IDP) enunciated the foundational principles of the first fully integrated Christian psychotherapeutic conceptualization."[1]
Psychomoralitics
Dr. Dilsaver is the developer of Psychomoralitics, which is advanced to be not only a new and unique spiritual (or soul-based) discipline that is an alternative to those of the mental health profession but the very remedy to the iatrogenic ills promulgated by the mental health profession and its disciplines. Psychomoralitics' aims to "promote essential human well-being and remedy essential mal-being."
According to Dr. Dilsaver, Psychomoralitics is "purged of all erroneous mental health elements," thus being "a distillation" of his previous work Imago Dei Psychotherapy and is the further and full development of the essence of that Imago Dei conceptualization. Psychomoralitics holds that mental disorder is but a haphazard classification of symptomology that arises from essential mal-being.[2]
Repudiation of the Mental Health Profession/System
Dr. Dilsaver is a graduate of an American Psychological Association accredited doctoral program and hospital internship. Deemed to be the "father of Christian psychology"[3] by some, Dr. Dilsaver for nearly a decade was a practitioner in the mental health field and presented professionally both on the national level (e.g., National Convention of the American Psychological Association) and local level (e.g., Philhaven Psychiatric Hospital) before he formally and definitively repudiated (as have others) what he terms the "failed mental health profession" and the "mental health system cabal."
Dr. Dilsaver charges that the mental health profession is not only erroneous in its conceptualization and a dismal failure in its efficacy, but is gravely harmful to the human spirit. Furthermore, Dr. Dilsaver claims that the mental health system (which he defines as the union of the State, the mental health profession, and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries under the total control of that State) is increasingly being used as a weapon to curtail sociopolitical freedom. As a response and counter-agent to what he deems to be the failed and harmful mental health profession, Dr. Dilsaver has developed Psychomoralitics.
Media
Dr. Dilsaver has appeared on national television[4] and lectures extensively.[5]
Bibliography
- Dilsaver, G C (2003). Restoring the image of God: Foundations of Catholic clinical Psychology (Dissertation). Regent University. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- Dilsaver, G C (2009). Imago Dei® Psychotherapy: a Catholic Conceptualization. Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- Dilsaver, G C (2010). The Three Marks of Manhood: How to be Priest, Prophet, and King of your Family. TAN Books. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
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