Reading List: Human Emotions

Books

• Baars, Conrad W., Born Only Once: The Miracle of Affirmation. Quincy, Ill: Franciscan Press, Quincy University, 2001.
• Baars, Conrad W. & Anna A. Terruwe, Healing the Unaffirmed: Recognizing Emotional Deprivation Disorder. Rev. ed. Suzanne M. Baars and Bonnie N. Shayne (eds.). Staten Island, NY: ST PAULS/Alba House, 2002. (Previously published by Alba House as Healing the Unaffirmed: Recognizing Deprivation Neurosis.)
• Baars, Conrad W. Feeling and Healing Your Emotions. Rev. ed. Suzanne M. Baars and Bonnie N. Shayne (eds.). Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1979, Gainesville, FL: Bridge-Logos, 2003.
• Terruwe, Anna A. & Conrad W. Baars. Psychic Wholeness and Healing: Using ALL the Powers of the Human Psyche. Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1981.

Online

• The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article
  A pretty good article on boredom from a psychological and faith perspective.
  
  
• USNews.com: Bernadine Healy, M.D.: Disorder or temperament?
  Scientists compare Adult Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder to the four temperaments first defined by Galen.
  
  
• Scientific American: The Self-Esteem Myth.
  Boosting people's sense of self-worth has become a national preoccupation. Yet surprisingly, researchshows that such efforts are of little value in fostering academic progress or preventing undesirable behavior
  


• Rages of the Age: On 'road rage,' 'air rage,' 'rink rage'
  National Review, Feb 11, 2002, by Theodore Dalrymple
  


• Emotional Deprivation Disorder:
Conrad Baars and Anna Terruwe have based their theory of psychological disorder on the Catholic understanding of human nature and human emotion. They have experienced great success in therapy where "traditional" treatments have failed.

Lectures

Church Documents

Summa Theologica

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• First Part of the Second Part (Prima Secundæ Partis), Questions 22-48