Catholic Mental Health

20 members Est. Oct 9, 2025 Updated Feb 10, 2026

Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Feb 4

Bring the soul back to psychiatry!
Mounting evidence and clinical experience demands mental health professionals to take spirituality and religion seriously to provide better care and leverage community assets.
My clinical review with practical recommendations @PsychTimes.
🔗⬇️ https://t.co/hqetstZFij

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Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Feb 3

. @SecKennedy “above all, it’s a spiritual disease, and we need to recognize that and faith-based organizations play a critical role in helping reestablish their connections to community.”

Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Jan 30

Thank you, Sec. Kennedy, for helping de-stigmatize addictions, addressing them as a disease & promoting community & faith-based interventions, which are essential for the recovery of people with substance & other mental disorders!
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Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Jan 28

Happy feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, a giant of Western philosophy and theology who deeply understood human condition and in the Middle Ages made some theoretical and practical contributions to mental heath!
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Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Jan 25

Stay warm and blessed, happy Sunday!
Blessed to have started this beautiful snowed day in New York City with Holy Mass and to finish it with a nice walk! https://t.co/vClHFzvKvG

Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Jan 23

Pope Leo To the Participants in the 2026 March for Life:
I send warm greetings to those of you participating in the 2026 March for Life. I likewise express heartfelt appreciation, and assure you of my spiritual closeness as you gather for this eloquent public witness to affirm

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Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Jan 20

+loss of traditional individual and social wellbeing and welfare scaffolding systems and resources such as faith, family, and community!
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Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Jan 19

Martin Luther King Day of Service by the Mental Wellness & Social Justice Ministries at the Church of Saint Elizabeth in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
It’s wonderful to see so many parish members devoted to make our neighborhood cleaner and mentally healthy! https://t.co/duro36xxhm

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Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Jan 17

If you’re at the World Congress of Social Psychiatry (WASP), come now to join our discussion on spirituality, religion, and mental health!
Faith is very powerful in mental health, let’s bring it to the table! https://t.co/dkCSxyF87g

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Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist @victorpsanchez · Jan 12

Save the date for the prime American conference on Catholic Mental Health!
Organized by the International Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers, in which I’m a proud member of the Board of Directors and conference organizing committee! https://t.co/tEABhVd3Au

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Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD | 🇻🇦Psychiatrist

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Child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. Devoted to mental health, Catholic faith and ministry, and family, in New York and worldwide. Posts are my own.

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