Ebook: Untangling the Mind: Why We Behave the Way We Do
Author: George David Theodore, Berger Lisa
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Language: English
- epub
Free yourself from emotional turmoileven when that turmoil is caused by others!
We have a much greater understanding of human behavior now than we did just a few decades ago. Yet even with this greater understanding of the human mind, why we do what we do can sometimes seem like a mystery. People are often left with unsettling questions about their own (or others') behavior.
We ask ourselves, Why did I make a spectacle of myself? Why am I so stressed? Why am I constantly so negative?
In his years as a clinician, Dr. Ted George has been struck by how much easier it is for people to say they have a physical illness than it is to admit they feel out of control with an emotion--be it anger, fear, or depression. With a physical issue, you have the source of the problem in concrete terms, such as in a lab report, but with an emotional issue, it can be much harder to define what's gone wrong. Untangling the Mind helps make sense of what's happening--and...