Psychic Wholeness and Healing, Second Edition: Using All the Powers of the Human Psyche
Ebook
Overview
As noted psychiatrists, authors, and lecturers, Baars and Terruwe excitingly blend medieval and classical notions of the human psyche together with modern clinical discoveries as they probe the topic of psychic wholeness and healing. The authors explore the entire human psyche, including man’s spiritual dimension, which is an area totally ignored by most modern psychiatrists--creating in modern man an ever-deepening sense of frustration in searching for effective psychiatric treatment for his emotional turmoil. The books’ numerous detailed clinical case histories clarify the authors’ therapeutic principles. The following questions, among many others, are considered in this work: How best to help a person who lives in constant fear that he has committed a serious sin even though he knows he has not? Does a person who wants to live a moral life, yet cannot refrain from doing things that he knows are immoral, suffer from weakness of willpower or from a neurosis that would lend itself to therapy?
"An exploration of man’s psyche, integrated with his spiritual
dimension. Essentially this book integrates modern psychological
discoveries with the psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Dr. Terruwe
and Dr. Baars take a refreshing look at the human person and
healing from a Christian perspective, something that the secular
humanistic and scientific views of man fail to take into account.
The reader is given an understanding of many of the repressive
disorders, which include symptoms such as fear, anxiety,
depression, irritability, anger, fatigue, scrupulosity, and
obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The repressive process, the
different types of repressive disorders and their appropriate
treatment are discussed. Clinical cases underscore the concepts in
this book, bringing the reader an understanding of the freedom
available through the healing of these emotional disorders and hope
for those afflicted. This book is geared for a wide
audience--laypersons, mental health professionals, and those
involved in Christian ministry and the moral formation of others.
It includes the English translation of Dr. Terruwe’s thesis on the
human person’s normal emotional, spiritual, and intellectual
life."
--From www.conradbaars.com
Product Details
- Title : Psychic Wholeness and Healing, Second Edition: Using All the Powers of the Human Psyche
- Authors:
- Terruwe, Anna A., MD
- Baars, Conrad W.
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9781498288132
Conrad W. Baars, MD (1919-1981) was a Dutch-born American
citizen who practiced psychiatry in the United States from 1946
until his death. Educated at Oxford University and the University
of Amsterdam Medical School, Dr. Baars served in the anti-Nazi
underground in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands during World
War II. Captured by the Nazis, he spent one and a half years in
Buchenwald concentration camp. He emigrated to the United States
following the war, and discovered Dutch psychiatrist Dr. Anna A.
Terruwe's work on energy and frustration neuroses in the
mid-1950's. He further developed and promoted this work throughout
the rest of his psychiatric career. His books include Born Only
Once, Feeling and Healing Your Emotions, and I Will Give
Them a New Heart: Reflections on the Priesthood and the Renewal of
the Church. Drs. Baars and Terruwe coauthored Psychic
Wholeness and Healing, and Healing the Unaffirmed. His
autobiography, Doctor of the Heart, details much of his
experience in Buchenwald.
DR. ANNA A. TERRUWE, MD (1912-2004) lived in the Netherlands, where
she practiced psychiatry in the city of Nijmegen. She earned her MD
at the University of Utrecht and her PhD at the University of
Leiden. Known as the discoverer of new syndromes dealing with the
energy and frustration neuroses, she treated patients from all over
Western Europe. Pope Paul VI called her work "a special gift to the
church." Dr. Terruwe lectured widely, taught at the Catholic
University of Nijmegen, and was the author of many books, most of
which have been translated into German, French, and English. The
best-known are Emotional Growth in Marriage and The
Neurosis in the Light of Rational Psychology.