books about: self-destructive     books:       Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them?: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama5 reviews Daniel Goleman, The Dalai Lama Macmillan Audio, 2003 fascinating and practical I've never written a review before; but when I saw that nobody else had commented on this audio book (the four cd set), I wanted to enter an emphatic endorsement of it. I have read many books on psychology, religion and emotions. This book integrates all of them. I was originally interested the influence of meditation on controlling stress and negative emotions. That information is here and ...             Healing Your Family History: 5 Steps to Break Free of Destructive Patterns9 reviews Rebecca Linder Hintze Hay House, 2006 An excellent book! I love Rebecca Linder Hintze's book, "Healing Your Family History." Her book is filled with psychological and spiritual wisdom. With her wonderful title and well-written content, she cleverly summarizes and merges insights from analytical and developmental psychologists with modern therapies focused on both changing beliefs and emotional regulation. I frequently recommend her book to my clients. ...             Trauma and Addiction: Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy5 reviews Ph.D., Tian Dayton HCI, 2000 Facing the Truth Tian Dayton has written a very powerful and insightful book on Trauma and Addiction,as they seem to go hand in hand. After reading this book I see the truth about my life and that I did not grow up in a Leave It To Beaver family. Many patterns and behaviors in my family were right on the pages of the book, so reading this has uncovered memories that have been deeply buried for a long time. This ...             Helping Your Troubled Teen: Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's ...5 reviews Cynthia S Kaplan, Blaise Aguirre, ... Fair Winds Press, 2007 A must read!! A beautifully written book that allows you to truly understand the perspective of those struggling with adolescence in our present age. Necessary for all who wish to further understand the psychology behind troubled teens and how to prevent their rebellious nature.             Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal With Destructive Conflict22 reviews Kenneth C. Haugk Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1988 Helps you keep your sanity when undermined I attended an outreach conference. This book was the first to sell out on the book table. Pastors think they are called to keep everyone happy. They have no idea about dysfunctional antagonists who first put you on a pedestal and then tear you down later when you somehow fail them and their agendae. Haugk counsels church leaders not to be paranoid, but to trust their sixth sense, too. ...             The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies...and How to Break Them (Unabridged)10 reviews Jagdish N. Sheth audible.com A Critical Look in the Mirror During the early 1980s, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman penned a business classic named In Search of Excellence. In it, they cited 62 "excellent" companies. Many, including Sears, Xerox, IBM and Eastman Kodiak, have faced serious problems since. Some recovered; some struggle to recover. Some are dead; others soon will be. Although the word "institution" implies permanence, Jagdish N. Sheth ...             Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice: A Revolutionary Program to Counter Negative Thoughts and Live Free from ...5 reviews Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone, ... New Harbinger Publications, 2002 Effective solutions if you will work at it "Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice: A Revolutionary Program to Counter Negative Thoughts and Live Free from Imagined Limitations" is a powerful therapeutic work for dealing with the inner voice that holds us back. It is both an explanatory text that describes how we acquire a critical inner voice and its purpose in our lives and a workbook that walks the reader through exercises, questionaires ...             Golf's Mental Hazards: Overcome Them and Put an End to the Self-Destructive Round6 reviews Alan Shapiro Fireside, 1996 Very helpful! The self evaluation is very insightful if you're honest with yourself. I guess it is a little self-centered of me to think that anyone else cares where my tee shot goes. The book sure helps put things into perspective. I'm ready to read it again.             Man Against Himself8 reviews Karl A. Menninger Harcourt, 1985 This book change my life - literally This review is not a hoax: I read this book while in solitary confinement for assaulting another prisoner. It was my first exposure to analysis of self-destructive behavior and its damning cyclical pattern. I was a two-time loser. A career criminal who had followed the all too familiar progression from juvenile home, jail, to prison. This book change my life. After serving a decade and a ...             When Too Much Isn't Enough: Ending The Destructive Cycle Of AD/HD and Addictive Behavior7 reviews NavPress Publishing Group, 2005 A must have for your AD/HD Library Wendy Richardson once again writes an imformative and helpful book about AD/HD and addiction. This book delves deep into addictive behaviors that many adults with AD/HD face. This book isn't just about well known addictions like drugs and gambling. It discusses every day things like shopping, food, and the internet. Wendy also provides helpful ways to deal with AD/HD and addictive behaviors.             Healing the Hurt Within : Understand and Relieve the Suffering Behind Self-Destructive Behaviour2 reviews Jan Sutton How to Books, 1999 A Must-Read for Self-Injurers Jan Sutton writes with warmth and poignancy regarding the phenomenon of self-injury. She takes a difficult, misunderstood, and "shameful" subject, brilliantly picks it apart, and exposes the roots in a non-judgemental and caring way. Jan uses personal stories, drawings, and poems to illustrate the "whys" of self-injury and gets to the heart of the matter in a way that is both empathetic and ...             Invisible Wounds: A Self-Help Guide for New Zealand Women in Destructive Relationships2 reviews Kay Douglas Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1994 Empowering for women who FEEL abused by their partners In your darkest moments of misery and loneliness, when you don't know where and whom to turn to, Kay will guide you and give you all the support you need - above all practical, then emotional and psychological. When you are so depressed, confused and motionless what you need most is someone to tell you that you are neither worthless nor hopeless or insane. Kay will take you by the hand and ...             Digging Your Own Grave3 reviews B. L. Andrews St Martins Mass Market Paper, 1994 So funny This is a great book and contains many funny "tips" like Stand between Oprah and a buffet table. Send your son alone on a camping trip with a priest Plant kudzu in your graden Name a previous boss who fired you as a reference Give a kitchen appliance to your wife for Valentine's day Bend over in a Prison shower Play "Truth or Dare" with Evel Kneviel Go Rollerblading blindfolded in San Francisco ...             Gluttony (Seven Deadly Sins)2 reviews Robin Wasserman, 2008 What happens in Vegas... I couldn't help but fill myself up on this book. Gluttony is Robin Wasserman's sixth book in the Seven Deadly Sins series. I have read all the other books and all of them had seemed to get better as they went along. Although the fifth installment, Sloth, had fallen short of my expectations I was anticipating Gluttony to see if Wasserman still had that touch, and she does. The majority of this ...             The Seeking Self: The Quest for Self Improvement and the Creation of Personal Suffering4 reviews Richard E. Lind Phanes Press, 2000 Provides "wisdom samples" drawn from diverse traditions Psychologist Richard Lind's principle theses in The Seeking Self: The Quest For Self Improvement And The Creation Of Personal Suffering is that for most people seeking self-help, self-improvement advice and activities, the result is more often one of disappointment, frustration, and anguish than any sense of inner peace. After a thorough survey and assessment of this unfortunate phenomena, Lind ...             Destructive Relationships: A Guide to Changing the Unhealthy Relationships in Your Life3 reviews Jill Murray Jodere Group, 2002 A Pathway to getting out of destructive relationships While there are many types of destructive relationships this book deals primarily with abusive ones. These relationships may be between husband and wife, boss and employee, friends, parents, children, or any other group of people. The relationships may be physically abusive, or they may be emotionally, sexually, or verbally abusive. "Destructive Relationships" walks the reader through warning ...             Younger Than Springtime3 reviews Greg Williams Dutton Adult, 1997 a very funny, engaging tale I started Greg Williams' book and laughed all the way to the end. The story of a power-lawyer who devolves into a beer-swilling, swaggering frat-boy cum hero is a wonderful satire on the youth culture that runs us ragged. This is a fable as a novel, one written with heart, humor, and a great and subtle appreciation of the madness of our times             Mr. Dynamite (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))2 reviews Meredith Brosnan Dalkey Archive Press, 2004 The Perils of Love (and Other Things) So exactly what horrible fate hovers over Jarleth Prendergast, the madcap protagonist of this irresistibly funny tale by Meredith Brosnan? Does ruin gnaw at our hero's genius (self-imagined or otherwise) because his minimum-wage job, his screaming spouse and his groaning board of alcohol and hallucinogens conspire to undermine his magnum opus, a film saga of the Irish Troubles rendered into ...             Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People: The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern2 reviews Nina W. Brown Praeger Publishers, 2006 Should be more books like this. Although I gave this book a "five" I do find that the book is lacking (in fact I probably should give it a four.) Yes, I know one is usually supposed to list the positives before talking about negatives, but this book could have been a definitive book if the author had stayed more in line with her title. Here's the only beef I had with the book: She does an excellent job helping the ...             Addicted?: Recognizing Destructive Behaviors Before It's Too Late2 reviews Marilyn Freimuth Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008 Addicted? The book "Addicted?" by Marilyn Freimuth, Ph.D that I had ordered from Amazon arrived. I was looking at it and my son came in to the kitchen. I told him the book was about identifying additions. He picked up the book and started to look through it. About 1/2 hr. later I looked in his room, and he was still reading the book!We had quite a discussion about the different addictions, including the ...              search for books addiction, addictive, antagonists, behaviors, behaviour, companies, conflict, creation, destructive, emotional, gluttony, identify, improvement, infuriating, invisible, limitations, literature, narcissistic, recognize, recognizing, relationships, revolutionary, scientific, self-destructive, self-help, springtime, suffering, unabridged, understand, unhealthy books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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