Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice

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Firestone, Robert W. , Firestone, Lisa , Joyce Catlett , Love, Pat (FRW) 저자(글)

New Harbinger Publications · 2002년 05월 01일

책 소개

In this work three psychologists provide readers with all the tools they need to overcome the kinds of nagging, judgmental, or abusively self-critical thinking that contributes to low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and substance abuse.
Joyce Catlett, MA, is a lecturer, author and coproducer of The Glendon Association's thirty-seven documentary videos. She developed the Compassionate Child Rearing Parent Education Program and conducts trainings. She lives in Santa Barabara, CA.
Lisa Firestone, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice, program and education director of the Glendon Association, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Robert W. Firestone, PhD, is a psychologist, author, and artist . He has been the main theoretician with the Glendon Association since 1979. He is author of 10 books includingFear of IntimacyandFantasy Bond.
After 25 years of research and clinical practice, the authors of this workbook reveal an ages-old truth: namely that the sworn enemy of mental health is one's own silent voice! The book includes dozens of exercises, questionnaires, self-assessments, and journaling activities.
After 25 years of research and clinical practice, the authors of this workbook reveal an ages-old truth: namely that the sworn enemy of mental health is one's own silent voice! The book includes dozens of exercises, questionnaires, self-assessments, and journaling activities.
The inner critic is the voice in our heads that whispers, whines, and needles us into poor self-esteem and self-confidence. It edits our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits our actions. It thinks it is protecting us from being hurt or feeling abandoned, but all it really does is reinforce our feelings of shame and guilt, sabotage our intimate relationships, and incline us to self-destructive behaviors. presents a revolutionary new strategy for dealing with the inner critic: externalizing it. This subtle, powerful technique turns internal self-criticisms into 'you' statements that can be evaluated objectively and exposed as the gross exaggerations, unfair comparisons, or flat out lies they really are. This book takes you through the step-by-step process of learning how to keep track of your negative thoughts, analyze their reality, and recognize how they impact your life. Learn to use a variety of techniques to help release your inner critic's stranglehold and combat its subversive effect on your career achievement, intimate relationships, and sexuality. A final chapter of the book offers parents simple ways to help their children avoid forming a tyrannical inner critic.
The inner critic is the voice in our heads that whispers, whines, and needles us into poor self-esteem and self-confidence. It edits our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits our actions. It thinks it is protecting us from being hurt or feeling abandoned, but all it really does is reinforce our feelings of shame and guilt, sabotage our intimate relationships, and incline us to self-destructive behaviors. strongConquer Your Inner Critic /strong>presents a revolutionary new strategy for dealing with the inner critic: externalizing it. This subtle, powerful technique turns internal self-criticisms into 'you' statements that can be evaluated objectively and exposed as the gross exaggerations, unfair comparisons, or flat out lies they really are. This book takes you through the step-by-step process of learning how to keep track of your negative thoughts, analyze their reality, and recognize how they impact your life. Learnto use a variety of techniques to help release your inner critic's stranglehold and combat its subversive effect on your career achievement, intimate relationships, and sexuality. A final chapter of the book offers parents simple ways to help their children avoid forming a tyrannical inner critic.
After 25 years of research and clinical practice, the authors of this workbook reveal an ages-old truth: namely that the sworn enemy of mental health is one's own silent voice! The book includes dozens of exercises, questionnaires, self-assessments, and journaling activities.
Voice therapy externalizes damaging self-criticism to minimize its impact on your thoughts and feelings. The step-by-step exercises in this book help you employ these ideas to develop your self-esteem and reverse self-critical damage to your life and goals.

작가정보

저자(글) Firestone, Robert W.

대표작으로 『자기비난적 사고와 치료 이론과 실제』가 있다.

저자(글) Firestone, Lisa

출간작으로 『자기비난적 사고와 치료 이론과 실제』 등이 있다.

저자(글) Joyce Catlett

출간작으로 『자기비난적 사고와 치료 이론과 실제』 등이 있다.

저자(글) Love, Pat (FRW)

목차

• Acknowledgments	p. ix
  Foreword	p. xi
  Introduction	p. 1
  Organization of This Book
  A Note to Therapists
  Understanding Your Critical Inner Voice
  Becoming Familiar with Your Critical Inner Voice	p. 9
  How Your Critical Inner Voice Controls Your Actions
  Being for Yourself or against Yourself
  How Did You Develop a Critical Inner Voice?
  Your Defenses
  The Real You and Your Critical Inner Voice
  How the Critical Inner Voice Disrupts Your Everyday Life
  Challenging the Critical Inner Voice by Taking Action
  How Your Critical Inner Voice Creates Shame, Guilt, and Low Self-Esteem	p. 33
  Identify When You Are Feeling Shame or Guilt
  The Defenses on Which Guilt, Shame, and Low Self-Esteem Are Based
  Critical Inner Voices Underlying Neurotic Guilt
  Critical Inner Voices Underlying Existential Guilt
  Combating Guilt, Shame, and Low Self-Esteem
  Challenging The Critical Inner Voice
  How the Critical Inner Voice Interferes with Your Career	p. 57
  How Your Defenses Limit You in Your Career
  Identify and Overcome Voices That Interfere with Your Creativity
  How the Critical Inner Voice Influences Your Relationship	p. 75
  How the Critical Inner Voice Interferes with Intimacy
  How the Fantasy Bond Works in Relationships
  How the Critical Inner Voice and the Fantasy Bond Work Together to Destroy Relationships
  Signs of a Fantasy Bond in Your Relationship
  Playing the Parent/Playing the Child
  How We Defend Ourselves against Love
  Three Defenses
  Suggestions for Disrupting the Fantasy Bond
  How the Critical Inner Voice Intrudes on Your Sexual Relationship	p. 97
  Two Views of Sex
  How Our Attitudes Toward Sex Are Influenced by Parents, Peers, and Society
  Attitudes toward Our Bodies
  Attitudes about Masturbation and Sex Play
  Society's Attitudes about Sexuality
  Voices During Sex
  How Do You Relate Sexually? Two Kinds of Sex
  How the Critical Inner Voice Seduces You into Addictive Behaviors	p. 117
  How Addictive Behaviors Affect You
  How Do We Come to Develop Addictions?
  How the Critical Inner Voice Encourages Addictive Behaviors
  Eating Disorders, Drug Abuse, and Alcoholism
  How Compulsive Activities Can Become Addictive
  Guidelines for Challenging Addictive Behaviors
  How Listening to Your Critical Inner Voice Can Make You Feel Down and Depressed	p. 135
  Have You Ever Been Depressed?
  How Do You Usually React to Negative Events in Your Life?
  What Does It Feel Like to Be Depressed?
  The Continuum of Self-Destructive Behaviors and Critical Inner Voices
  Combating Critical Inner Voices That Lead to Depression
  Steps for Challenging Depression
  How to Select a Therapist	p. 163
  Factors to Consider in Making Your Choice
  Personal Qualities of the Therapist That Are Conducive to Good Therapy
  The Therapeutic Relationship
  Guidelines for Living the "Good Life"
  For Parents: Guidelines for Optimal Child Development	p. 171
  Repeating Our Parents' Behaviors
  Guilt about Not Always Feeling Love
  Guidelines for Child Rearing
  Living Free of Imagined Limitations--The "Good Life"	p. 187
  What Does "Living the Good Life" Mean to You?
  Guidelines for Continued Personal Development
  Guidelines for Continued Personal Development in Your Relationship
  Guidelines for Further Developing a Meaningful Life
  Bibliography: Glendon Association Video Productions	p. 201
  Suggested Reading	p. 207
  References	p. 215
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기본정보

ISBN	9781572242876 ( 1572242876 )
발행(출시)일자	2002년 05월 01일
쪽수	232쪽
크기	180 * 254 * 13 mm / 476 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어