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Summary: Revolutionary treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Review: As a psychotherapist, this is a pivotal book in successfully understanding and treating obsessive-compulsive disorder. It synthesizes the psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas with modern psychological principles. This therapy is especially helpful for therapists treating Catholic Christians with OCD, as it does not contradict fundamental Catholic teaching, particularly in the area of sexuality.
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Summary: Revolutionary treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Review: As a psychotherapist, this is a pivotal book in successfully understanding and treating obsessive-compulsive disorder. It synthesizes the psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas with modern psychological principles. This therapy is especially helpful for therapists treating Catholic Christians with OCD, as it does not contradict fundamental Catholic teaching, particularly in the area of sexuality.
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Summary: Excellent Book on the Emotional Life
Review: Dr. Terruwe and Dr. Baars give us an excellent understanding of the healthy emotional life and what can go wrong to cause an emotional disorder. The reader is given an understanding of many of the repressive disorders which include symptoms such as tension, anxiety, depression, irritablity, anger, fatigue, scrupulosity and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. 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. The authors' clinical discoveries are detailed along with an explanation of their therapy. Prevention of these disorders is also discussed. Many, many people have been greatly helped through these principles. This book is geared for a wide audience -- lay persons, mental health professionals and those involved in Christian ministry and the moral formation of others. (Please note that the words "psychic" and "psyche" in title of this book refer to "psychological" wholeness.)
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Summary: A Failure.
Review: The treatments advocated by Konrad Baars, along with much else in the periphery of psychological treatment is a sham. These outmoded theories have been superseded by a biological understanding personality and disease as well as the innovated notions of Sigmund Freud, who, over one hundred years ago, introduced the discovery of the unconscious. The only appeal of Baars's work is its association with Catholic doctrine. But that religion is not a suitable basis for psychiatric treatment. No psychiatric residency program in this country teaches this type of mystical, New Age mumbo-jumbo. It is soley the province of poorly-trained "counselors," social workers, and religious devotees. If you are having a problem, only the latest pharmaceutical innovations can claim to offer relief of suffering.
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