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This pioneering psychiatrist presents the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, exploring the roots of psychological and emotional suffering through biological evolution, child development, and adult decision-making. Drawing from evolution, neuroscience, and extensive clinical experience, the author examines what he terms negative legacy emotions—painful feelings that burden all humans. He argues that we evolved as both the most violent and the most empathic beings, with evolution addressing the conflict between aggression and social cohesion by embedding guilt, shame, and anxiety in our genes. These emotions were historically essential for regulating self-assertiveness and aggression within close family and clan structures. However, the author contends that guilt, shame, and anxiety have become self-defeating legacies that no longer serve a positive purpose in adult life. He outlines the Three Steps to Emotional Freedom, beginning with the identification of negative legacy emotions and progressing to rejecting their control. Ultimately, he offers a path to overcome these emotions, leading to greater emotional freedom and a more rational, loving, and productive existence.
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Guilt, Shame, And Anxiety, Peter Roger Breggin
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- Titel
- Guilt, Shame, And Anxiety
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Peter Roger Breggin
- Verlag
- Prometheus Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 317
- ISBN10
- 1616141492
- ISBN13
- 9781616141493
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Lebenshilfe, Psychologische Thematik, Philosophisches Thema, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Psychologie, Spiritualität, Gesundheit, Beziehungen, Soziologie, Psychische Gesundheit, Glück, Psychotherapie, Beschäftigung, Heilung, Psychiatrie, Depression, Achtsamkeit, Schuld, Trauma, Gehirn, Sozialarbeit, Wut, Stressbewältigung, Traurigkeit, Angststörungen, Intuition, Menschliche Natur, Narzissmus, Freundlichkeit
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- This pioneering psychiatrist presents the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, exploring the roots of psychological and emotional suffering through biological evolution, child development, and adult decision-making. Drawing from evolution, neuroscience, and extensive clinical experience, the author examines what he terms negative legacy emotions—painful feelings that burden all humans. He argues that we evolved as both the most violent and the most empathic beings, with evolution addressing the conflict between aggression and social cohesion by embedding guilt, shame, and anxiety in our genes. These emotions were historically essential for regulating self-assertiveness and aggression within close family and clan structures. However, the author contends that guilt, shame, and anxiety have become self-defeating legacies that no longer serve a positive purpose in adult life. He outlines the Three Steps to Emotional Freedom, beginning with the identification of negative legacy emotions and progressing to rejecting their control. Ultimately, he offers a path to overcome these emotions, leading to greater emotional freedom and a more rational, loving, and productive existence.