Articles for Listening and Download

Produced with proper permission from the Catholic Medical Association, below are recorded readings of a few articles **by the late Catholic psychiatrist Dr. Conrad Baars. He and his colleague Dr. Anna Terruwe inform much of how I approach counseling.

To learn more about Terruwe and Baars, and to view a list of their works I suggest reading, visit the Terruwe and Baars Bookshelf.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/TH9TZrZtJlw?si=6Gch0C23KD98BIls

This article serves as a great introduction to many of the issues around deep-seated feelings of inferiority, insecurity, inadequacy, unloveableness, and low self-worth.

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/gfBAkK-zwv0?si=rbqZfOpaSg0D9aGx

This article is from the talk Terruwe and Baars gave at the 1971 Synod of Bishops in Rome.

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/eygQp2tRcZE?si=o9uYVT1C-phLb-0j

This article offers a practical understanding of affirmation in the context of a crisis pregnancy, and what it means to be unaffirmed.

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