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Book Description
Procrastination...Envy...Anger...Self-pity...Compulsion....In any of its many forms, self-defeating behavior is the single most common reason that people seek psychotherapy. It is a poison that prevents people from achieving the love, success, and happiness they desire. Get Out of Your Own Way is an antidote, explaining the reasons for self-sabotage by going back to the childhood origins of various behaviors. With anecdotes and usable insights drawn from twenty years of psychiatric clinical practice, Dr. Mark Goulston shares ideas that have helped thousands of patients overcome pain, fear, and confusion-to approach life's challenges with dignity, wisdom, courage, and even humor.


About the Author
Mark Goulston, M.D., a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice, was trained at Berkeley, Boston University, the Menninger Foundation, and UCLA, where he is now an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Neuropsychiatric Institute. He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including Donahue, Oprah, the Today Show, Sally Jessy Raphael, CNN, NBC News, and Sonya Live.

Philip Goldberg is the author or coauthor of eleven nonfiction books, including The Intuitive Edge and A Different Kind of Healing.

ANNOTATION

Self-defeating behavior is the single most common reason that people seek psychotherapy. This psychiatrist's practical action plan for transforming behavior from self-defeating to life-enhancing provides proven steps that show how to change 40 behaviors, including procrastination, guilt, and anger.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Self-defeating behavior is the single most common reason that people seek psychotherapy. It is a poison, preventing us from achieving the love, success, and happiness we want in our lives. And what's really frustrating is feeling we have to change and not knowing how -- or knowing how but being unable to stick with change. Get Out of Your Own Way is an antidote -- it explains why we sabotage ourselves, going back to childhood origins of various behaviors. More important, it offers a proven course of action to transform behavior from self-defeating to life-enhancing.