Don't Lie to Yourself: How to Stop Destroying Yourself and Start Building It Up
14.99 €
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Don't Lie to Yourself: How to Stop Destroying Yourself and Start Building It Up
14.99 €
This book explores how people lie to themselves, avoiding painful truths, and how psychotherapy helps them face these truths to achieve freedom.
We tend to avoid complex reality, intuitively believing that this will help us maintain calm and balance. But it's quite the opposite—it's self-deception that makes us unhappy.
Honesty with oneself is the key to change. Psychotherapist, supervisor, and teacher John Frederickson explains why, without an honest look at their lives, people plunge into psychological suffering, and defense mechanisms keep them stuck.
Drawing on decades of practice, the author explains how psychological defenses work, why we deny the obvious, suppress feelings, and cling to relationships, dreams, and self-images that have long since ceased to be reality. Through real-life patient stories, the book helps us see how self-deception gives rise to anxiety, addiction, depression, and inner emptiness.
But this book isn't about diagnoses or self-correcting; it's about acceptance—of your emotions, vulnerability, pain, and your own human nature. It's about how to stop fighting reality and start living more honestly, freely, and fully.
We tend to avoid complex reality, intuitively believing that this will help us maintain calm and balance. But it's quite the opposite—it's self-deception that makes us unhappy.
Honesty with oneself is the key to change. Psychotherapist, supervisor, and teacher John Frederickson explains why, without an honest look at their lives, people plunge into psychological suffering, and defense mechanisms keep them stuck.
Drawing on decades of practice, the author explains how psychological defenses work, why we deny the obvious, suppress feelings, and cling to relationships, dreams, and self-images that have long since ceased to be reality. Through real-life patient stories, the book helps us see how self-deception gives rise to anxiety, addiction, depression, and inner emptiness.
But this book isn't about diagnoses or self-correcting; it's about acceptance—of your emotions, vulnerability, pain, and your own human nature. It's about how to stop fighting reality and start living more honestly, freely, and fully.
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