Why You Behave in Ways You Hate: And What You Can Do About It

Have you ever met anyone who didn't have some behavior he or she couldn't stand? Why do we so often continue to behave in ways that make us unhappy? Why don't we learn from our mistakes? Why does willpower fail? Have you adopted the qualities that you hated in your parents? Do you wonder why? Many of the available self-help books give advice and present general ideas about the cause of our problems but do not provide in-depth insight into the reasons behind our behavior. They don't tell us why it is so difficult to follow their advice or our own desires and to overcome our problems. Why You Behave in Ways You Hate does. Dr. Gootnick explains why children blame themselves for their parents' faults and how this creates hidden, destructive mind-sets that cause the behaviors that plague us. In a clear, straightforward way, he shows you how to see past the psychological blinders that make it difficult for you to see how these mind-sets operate and then to take effective action. Seven charts identify specific behaviors and allow you to look up your personal problem and understand at a glance how it originated or how you may have responded to it. Using individual personality profiles of you and your family members, you will be able to analyze what happened in the past and to institute changes in your thinking and behavior. In addition, because Why You Behave in Ways You Hate is based on family dynamics, it is an invaluable asset for parents working on problems they may have with their children. It will help break the generational cycle of doing to your children what was done to you. Who is this book for? Its for anyone who has difficulty in achieving success in school or a career, who repeatedly get involved in bad relationships, or who have trouble extricating themselves from abusive relationships. It also appeals to parents who have problems with their children, to those who feel insecure, inadequate, or depressed without cause, and to individuals who have problems with addictions or weight control, or who sacrifice their own interests for others.

Self-Help

Irwin Gootnick, M.D.

Personal Transformation

Penmarin Books Inc

Why You Behave in Ways You Hate: And What You Can Do About It

Motivational

Self-Help for Smarties is for people ready to throw away all those self-help books on weight loss, love relationships, career and parenting that never worked. Using examples from real people and real situations, Dr. Gootnick unlocks the secret codes for us to achieve real success in those areas. “How many times in your life have you said or thought, 'If only' you had said or done something differently?” he writes. “As a psychiatrist I listen to people's stories of failure and frustration all the time. It's my job to ferret out what is behind the feelings of guilt and resentment so often expressed in my office, and then figure out how to help people change lifelong, undermining patterns. . . . People really do want to change, some desperately.” Self-Help for Smarties is a hands-on guide that offers practical tools to make those changes: simple explanations and specific self assessments to burst through chains of suppressed guilt andresentment that cause the self-defeating behaviors. Dr. Gootnick helps us understand how early life experiences create mind-sets that influence what we do and how we think about and react to situationstoday. He then shows us how to change our thinking to effectively lose weight, to succeed in love relationships and our careers and to be better parents. A feature that makes the book easy to use are the charts that identify specific behaviors and that allow us to look up our personal problem and see at a glance how it originated and how we may have responded to it. Dr. IRWIN GOOTNICK, acclaimed author of Why You Behave in Ways You Hate, has a private psychiatric practice in San Francisco. He has appeared on “Oprah” and other major national media.

Self-help for Smarties: Secret Success Codes for Weight Loss, Love, Career And Parenting

Parenting & Relationships

Penmarin Books

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Why You Behave in Ways You Hate: And What You Can Do About It

Why You Behave in Ways You Hate: And What You Can Do About It

Self-help for Smarties: Secret Success Codes for Weight Loss, Love, Career And Parenting