How To Be Your Own Therapist: A Step-By-Step Guide To Buliding A Compotent, Confident Life

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Self-help tools that work with--or without-- the aid of a therapist How to Be Your Own Therapist provides tools for those who want to replace unhealthy behaviors with actions that bring satisfaction and success. Drawing from her 20 years as a licensed therapist, Dr. Patricia Farrell has developed an approach that enables individuals to manage their own lives by reclaiming the personal power to take action. With intelligence and insight, Dr. Farrell shares the innovative techniques and exercises that promote successful results in her own patients--patients whom Farrell quickly enables to move into independent problemsolving action. Also included here are dozens of proven self-assessment tests, compelling case studies, and helpful symptom-identification sidebars. Her "power tools" include how to: Fire one's parents Quit whining Make lots of mistakes Stick up for oneself Table of Contents Acknowledgments IX Foreword: A Call to Sanity: Coming Home to Yourself XI Section I The Myth of Psychotherapy and the Promise of Healing Chapter 1 Seeking the Answers Within or Without 3 Chapter 2 The 10 Biggest Myths of Modern Psychotherapy 13 Section II Discoveries from the Toolbox: Ten Tools for Healing and Change Chapter 3 Challenge and Change 27 Chapter 4 Open Your Eyes & Face Reality 39 Chapter 5 Make Lots of Mistakes 63 Chapter 6 Quit Whining 91 Chapter 7 Act Like the Person You Want to Be 111 Chapter 8 Accept Yourself, Warts & All 133 Chapter 9 Fire Your Parents 153 Chapter 10 Challenge Authority 179 Chapter 11 Stick Up for Yourself 203 Chapter 12 Live Dangerously 221 Chapter 13 Give Up the Throne 239 Afterword: On Your Way 255 Notes 259 Index 263