Healing the Unaffirmed: Recognizing Emotional Deprivation Disorder

This is a very little known disorder that is probably affecting countless of people. This book explains the disorder and enlightens the reader about how it affects the person suffering from it. I finally had an answer to the behavior of my loved one, prior to reading Healing the Unaffirmed I didn't understand what was happening. I highly recommend it to anyone.

"Healing the Unaffirmed" by Dr. Conrad Baars offers excellent insights for all pastors and counselors. Dr. Baars' approach to the human person is entirely compatible with Christian anthropology, and provides practical steps toward working with those individuals who are the victims of our increasingly depersonalized society. Since alienation and emotional detachment will continue to harm family and community life for some time to come, Dr. Baars' work will not cease to grow in relevance.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone even though they are not suffering from emotional disorder but could understand others better. This book has changed how I feel about myself, and I can finally understand and identify with so many things that didn't make sense as to why I was feeling so badly about myself and had several depressions. A plus for anyone's library. I have bought one for my brother as I'm keeping mine as a reference.

An excellent book revealing the importance of unconditional love and affirmation in one's life. Baars & Terruwe describe the discovery and symptoms of Emotional Deprivation Disorder -- a syndrome which results from a lack of unconditional love and emotional strengthening in one's life. EDD manifests itself with symptoms such as feelings of loneliness, insecurity, insignificance, and worthlessness. Unaffirmed persons generally feel unwanted, unloved, inferior, depressed, afraid of the world, oversensitive, unlovable, and unable to make friends and relate to others. This results in an emotional prison which is only able to be opened from the outside -- by another person giving unselfish, unconditional, authentic love. To be healed, the individual must feel worthwhile to another person, loved, and understood. Truly an important book for our time -- a time when so many are deprived of the emotional affirmation and love that they need.

An excellent book revealing the importance of love and affirmation that everyone needs to be whole and happy. The book describes the discovery and symptoms of Deprivation Neurosis -- a syndrome which results from a lack of love and affirmation in someone's life. Feelings of loneliness, insecurity, insignificance, and worthlessness manifest themselves. The individual generally feels unwanted, unloved, inferior, depressed, afraid of the world, oversensitive, unlovable, and unable to make friends. All these result in an emotional prison which is only able to be opened from the outside -- by another person giving unselfishly of him or herself -- true, unconditional, authentic love. To be healed, the individual must feel worthwhile to another person, loved, and understood. Truly an important book for our time -- a time when so many are deprived of the emotional affirmation and love that they need.