Love Deformed, Love Transformed

“With great sensitivity, Bellusci makes clear the mental processes taking place in lust-obsessed individuals. His study fills a very desperate need in the field of sex addiction by supplementing Freudian psychology with the completeness and reality of Aquinas. Bill Wilson once wrote that ‘When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically’ and Bellusci provides the scientific and philosophical groundwork to sustain this claim. Recommended especially for spiritual directors.”


—Andrzej Skulski, Military Chaplain for the Royal Canadian Navy





“With Love Deformed, Love Transformed Father Bellusci offers clinicians a theological approach to the widespread therapeutic and pastoral problem of sexual compulsivity. By providing a detailed but accessible academic analysis of the topic, he advances a needed rapprochement between what secular science can offer, through explanation of Freudian psychoanalysis, and theological wisdom as represented by Thomas Aquinas. Undertaking this important task will hopefully contribute to practical improvement in the lives of many who suffer.”


—Wayne Ottenbreit, president, Catholic Psychotherapy Association of Canada