Name: Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions
SKU: 3727
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Rating: 4.9 (15 reviews)

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.

15 reviews for Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions

NobodysFool

Rated 4 out of 5
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February 20, 2023

Interesting and well written

In the first chapter alone, I learned so much, I feel like this book has been something I’ve been looking for for a while… Great insight, well written...More
In the first chapter alone, I learned so much, I feel like this book has been something I’ve been looking for for a while… Great insight, well written, and not so clinical, that you feel like you’re back in school.

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Joey54

Rated 4 out of 5
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February 27, 2015

Would recommend this book to any person wanting to have an ...

Would recommend this book to any person wanting to have an understanding of what forces shape their behaviour. As understanding and awareness give ris...More
Would recommend this book to any person wanting to have an understanding of what forces shape their behaviour. As understanding and awareness give rise to the facility of change. As I read this book I began to have a clarity I hadn't had in the past and, so far, I have been able to bring that clarity to live a healthier emotional life.

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