A Thousand Frightening Fantasies: Understanding and Healing Scrupulosity and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

This book offers much good advice to those who are afflicted with scrupulosity. But unfortunately the book doesn't always remain faithful to Catholic moral teaching. Thus we find blatant dissent on moral issues which have already been definitively defined and decided by the Church, for example, on the Church teaching on artificial contraception. There is one example cited by the author of a couple who 'cured' their scruples by reconciling themselves towards their dissent against the Church teaching. Sometimes what appear to the untrained eye to be scruples may be nothing more than simple guilt for real sin! We need to carefully discern the difference. Perhaps a better book would be 'Understanding Scrupulosity', by Thomas M. Santa. Faithful Catholics who want the truth are not best served by a book such as this, although it does have other helpful advice. Keep your Catechism and a good confessor close by and you should be ok.

This is so true for some poor souls that I know. One of them told me about it.