TY  - BOOK
AU  - Breggin,Peter Roger
TI  - Guilt, shame, and anxiety: understanding and overcoming negative emotions 
SN  - 9781616141493 (paperback)
AV  - BF531 .B735 2014
U1  - 152.4 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Amherst, New York
PB  - Prometheus Books
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Guilt
KW  - Shame
KW  - Anxiety
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index;  Understanding negative legacy emotions. The most violent and most loving creature on Earth ; Our human legacy of Stone Age emotions ; Our brains are made up of people ; The social carnivore emerges from Africa ; Instincts for language, morality, and spirituality ; We are born helpless and dependent ; Why none of us escape emotionally free from childhood ; Nature's anger management ; When abuse overwhelms the child ; Bullying, domestic violence, and posttraumatic stress ; Don't people need some guilt and shame? -- Achieving emotional freedom. Taking the three steps to emotional freedom ; Identifying feelings of guilt, shame, and anxiety ; Recognizing feelings of anger and emotional numbness ; Negative things we tell ourselves ; How our bodies tell us about guilt, shame, and anxiety ; Rejecting guilt and self-destructive feelings ; Overcoming shame and defensive feelings ; Conquering anxiety and helpless feelings ; Mastering anger ; Breaking out of numbness ; How to run our minds and lives ; Facing real-live challenges -- Freedom to love. Love is joyful awareness ; Let's talk about sex ; Love is not the same as relationship ; What to do when love is lost ; Guidelines for maintaining a loving partnership ; Empathic self-transformation ; Where to turn when all seems lost ; Last resorts that seldom work out ; Love is our highest purpose -- Appendix A. About psychiatry and psychiatric drugs -- Appendix B. Darwin was no Darwinist
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