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Invisible Masters: Compulsions and the Fear That Drives Them
Invisible Masters Compulsions and the Fear That Drives Them Author:George Weinberg What is compulsive behavior? How does it come to be,? How does it shape our lives,? What can we do to change it? — Although only a small percentage of the population suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, all of us, to some degree, are held hostage by behaviors that we unconsciously believe will protect us from ourselves---or at ... more »least those parts of ourselves that we have deemed unacceptable.
Dr. Weinberg shares with us actual case studies of this yet misunderstood aspect of human psychology. Meet Johnathan, a young teacher who is enslaved to shoot basketballs, measuring his self-worth by whether or not he misses. And Marianne, a loving mother who seeks treatment for her daughter's compulsive shoplifting triggered by sexual abuse. Or the gifted elderly draftsman who loses job after job because of his fear of drawing beyond strictly prescribed boundaries because as a young boy in a Nazi concentration camp he watched innocent people lose their lives when they "broke the rules."
With tenderness, courage, and vast insight, George Weinberg offers us the key to liberating ourselves from our compulsions, allowing us to truly become masters of our own lives. And with breathtaking clarity and sureness, he makes the most elusive sides of our psyches visible in a way that is both instructive and entertaining.« less