Psychic Wholeness and Healing, Second Edition

by Anna A Terruwe MD, Conrad W Baars MD, Suzanne M Baars (Editor)

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498288125
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	03/30/2016
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	276
Sales rank:	496,422
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Alexis E. McCarthy ix

Preface xi

Introduction to Integracja Psychiczna xvii

Chapter I The Human Psyche 1

The Senses 5

The Sense Appetites 9

The Pleasure Appetite 11

The Utility Appetite/The Assertive Drive 13

Diagram of Emotions of the Sensory Appetites 15

The Relation between the Two Appetites 16

Sensory Power of Movement 17

Intellect and Will 21

Chapter II The Repressive Process 30

Emotions in Conflict 30

Conflict between Sensory Appetites and the Will 33

Conflict between the Sensory Appetites 34

Repressing and Repressed Emotions 39

The Repressed Emotions According to Their Specific Nature 40

The Repressed Emotions According to Their Objects 42

Psychological and Somatic Upheaval 45

The Activity of the Repressing Emotion 45

Activity of the Repressed Emotion 51

Clinical Consequences of the Activity of the Repressing and Repressed Emotions 55

Chapter III Types of Repressive Disorders 58

The Hysterical Neurosis 59

Fear-Based Repression 64

Energy-Based Repression 67

Fear-Based Repression Camouflaged by Energy 72

Chapter IV Therapy of Repressive Disorders 82

Therapy of Hysterical Neurosis 83

Therapy of Obsessive-Compulsive Repression 84

Therapy of Fear-Based Repression 85

Therapy of Energy-Based Repression 96

Therapy of Camouflaged Fear-Based Repression 102

Mortification Therapy of Sexual Obsessions and Compulsions* 104

Chapter V Case Histories 130

Hysterical Neurosis-One Case 130

A Semi-Paralyzed Nun 130

Fear-Based Repression-One Case 132

Scrupulosity and Compulsive Hand-Washing 132

Energy-Based Repression-Three Cases 135

1 Compulsive Street Cleaning 135

2 Sexual Impotence in a Perfectionist Businessman 138

3 Sexual Impotence and Puritanism 141

Camouflaged Fear-Based Repression-Two Cases 144

1 Rage Reactions and Phobias in a Middle-aged Homemaker 144

2 Blinding Headaches and Ulcer in Young Lawyer 149

Combined Emotional Deprivation Disorder and Repression-Three Cases 153

1 Mother with Beard Phobia 153

2 Exhausted Nun with a Doll 161

3 Teddy Bears and Insulin Subcoma Therapy 166

Chapter VI Prevention of Repressive Disorders 179

Chapter VII The Assertive Drive 197

Chapter VIII Freedom of the Will in Repressive Disorders 212

Chapter IX Emotional Maturity 219

Appendix A Human Drives 227

Appendix B 229

Appendix C 'Guidelines' to Quicksand Conrad W. Baars, M.D. 233

Glossary 237

Bibliography 241

Index 245

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"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

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher