Articles by Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D.

Rick Fitzgibbons, M.D. is the director of the Institute for Marital Healing outside Philadelphia, has worked with hundreds of couples over the past 40 years and authored Habits for a Healthy Marriage: A Handbook for Catholic Couples (Ignatius Press, 2019). With Fr. John Harvey, O.S.F.S., the founder of Courage, he gave many conferences to priests, religious, and seminarians on spiritual and psychological approaches to their leading chaste lives and to overcoming sexual temptations and behaviors. In 2019, Forgiveness Therapy: An Empirical Guide for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope (APA Books, 2014), which he co-authored with Robert Enright, Ph.D., received the Benedict XVI Award for Expanded Reason in Research. He has written a number of articles on the crisis in the Church.