It is an indispensable practical reference for all pastoral workers. Problems from psychoses to mood disorders, suicide to sexual disturbances, anxiety to addictive behaviors, and ailments in between are explained. Emotional cruelty may be not freely chosen but tied to antisocial personality traits; sinning against the sixth commandment can be driven by the illness of pedophilia. What is the reason of our deeply ingrained fallibility?.
For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." Despite our best efforts to live our lives as we ought to, we repeatedly fall into the trap of "not understanding what we do," and constantly perpetrating the same missteps we have previously vowed never to take again. The reverse is also true: most mentally disordered behaviors involve some form of intentional and sinful violation of Jesus' command.