Psychic Wholeness and Healing: Using All the Powers of the Human Psyche. This item is unavailable.Psychic Wholeness and Healing: Using All the Powers of the Human Psyche

These noted psychiatrists, authors and lecturers blend in an exciting way medieval/classical notions of the human psyche and 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. Numerous detailed clinical case histories are included which clarify the authors’ therapeutic principles. The following questions, among many others, are considered in this work: How can a person be helped 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 which he knows are immoral, suffer from weakness of will power or from a neurosis which would lend itself to therapy?

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. He emigrated to the United States following the war, where he discovered Dutch psychiatrist Dr. Anna A. Terruwe's work on energy and frustration neuroses in the mid-1950s, which he developed and promoted 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.

Dr. Anna A. A. Terruwe (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.