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Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior [Paperback]

Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior

Review

Powerful practical insights that can help many to live more rewarding lives. — Harold Bloomfield, How to Survive the Loss of a LoveProvides clear insight, compassionate understanding and practical solutions. — Jack Canfield, Coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Procrastination…Envy…Anger…Self-pity…Compulsion….In any of its many forms, self-defeating behavior is the single most common reason that people seek psychotherapy. It is a poison that prevents people from achieving the love, success, and happiness they desire. Get Out of Your Own Way is an antidote, explaining the reasons for self-sabotage by going back to the childhood origins of various behaviors. With anecdotes and usable insights drawn from twenty years of psychiatric clinical practice, Dr. Mark Goulston shares ideas that have helped thousands of patients overcome pain, fear, and confusion-to approach life’s challenges with dignity, wisdom, courage, and even hum (more…)

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Self-Defeating Behaviors: Free Yourself from the Habits, Compulsions, Feelings, and Attitudes That Hold You Back [Paperback]

Self-Defeating Behaviors: Free Yourself from the Habits, Compulsions, Feelings, and Attitudes That Hold You Back

From Library Journal

Cudney (counseling, Western Michigan Univ.) and Hardy, a practicing psychologist, offer a thorough investigation into the psyche by explaining those attitudes or actions that may have worked at one time, but ultimately cycle into adult behaviors that backfire. Self-defeatists, they claim, harbor mythical fears that stifle creative thought patterns, causing faulty conclusions which perpetuate the destructive cycle. The authors outline steps to work toward a breakthrough, although they caution that counseling may be necessary to stop the self-defeating cycle. This guide is recommended for self-help and therapy collections.- Lisa Wise, Steele Memorial Lib., Elmira, Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

“Some of my patients would not need therapy if they would read this book.” — –Dr. Alan Loy McGinnis, author of The Power of Optimism”The mo (more…)