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Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions
Md Peter R. Breggin
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Description for Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions
Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 392.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781616141493
SKU
V9781616141493
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About Md Peter R. Breggin
Peter R. Breggin, MD, has for many decades led successful efforts to reform the mental health field and to promote empathic therapies. His scientific work has provided the foundation for modern criticism of psychiatric drugs and diagnoses. He has authored dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books including the bestsellers Toxic Psychiatry (1991) and Talking Back to Prozac ... Read more
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