With the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs examines the causes and effects of psychological and emotional suffering from the perspective of biological evolution, child development, and mature adult decision-making. Drawing on evolution, neuroscience, and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Breggin analyzes what he calls our negative legacy emotions-the painful emotional heritage that encumbers all human beings. The author marshals evidence that we evolved as the most violent and yet most empathic creatures on Earth. Evolution dealt with this species-threatening conflict between our violence and our close-knit social life by building guilt, shame, and anxiety into our genes. These inhibiting emotions were needed prehistorically to control our self-assertiveness and aggression within intimate family and clan relationships. Dr. Breggin shows how guilt, shame, and anxiety eventually became self-defeating and demoralizing legacies from our primitive past that no longer play any useful or positive role in mature adult life. He then guides the reader through the Three Steps to Emotional Freedom, starting with how to identify negative legacy emotions and then how to reject their control over us. Finally, he describes how to triumph over and transcend guilt, shame, and anxiety on the way to greater emotional freedom and a more rational, loving, and productive life.
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Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions
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This book has helped me re-identify what appears to be the root of my, yes, suffering: Shame. Though I'm still not sure of the exact cause, I see that the shame I've felt at least since I was 5, when it first became conscious, had pushed me into almost debilitating shyness with the attendant loneliness. This book has calmed me down and shown me a way out of the shame. Will the improvement last? I don't know. But the insights I've gleaned from this book definitely enable me to put behind me some of those persistent negative feelings about myself.