Imaginary Crimes: Why We Punish Ourselves and How to Stop - Hardcover

Lewis B. Engel, Ph. D.; Tom Ferguson, M.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395465567 ISBN 13: 9780395465561

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990

Synopsis

Explains how an intense concern for others can leave one with a heavy burden of guilt--feelings of abandonment, disloyalty, love theft, and more--and describes Control Mastery Theory

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About the Author

Lewis Engel, Ph.D., is a San Francisco clinical psychologist. He attended Reed College (where he, as his co-author, Tom Ferguson were freshman roommates), earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees at San Francisco State University, and received his doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology. In 1981, Engel requested a consultation on an especially difficult client with psychologist Harold Sampson. It was through Sampson that he first learned about Control Mastery Theory. Engel continues to use Control Mastery Theory in his San Francisco psychotherapy practice, as well as gives talks and writes articles that apply the theory to new areas. He is particularly interested in the treatment of couples, trauma, and assisting people grappling with chronic illness, grieving and loss. Tom Ferguson, M.D. is a Senior Research Fellow for Online Health at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. He is Project Director of the 'e-Patients, Online Health, and the Search for Sustainable Healthcare.' Project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Ferguson is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Texas School of Health Information Science and a senior associate at Boston's Center for Clinical Computing. He is the author of ten books on consumer health topics, including Health Online: How to Find Health Information, Support Groups and Self-Help Communities in Cyberspace. He is the editor and publisher of The Ferguson Report a free online newsletter (www.fergusonreport.com) which reviews current research on e-patients and online health. Dr. Ferguson received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine. He has received the Educational Press Association's Distinguished Achievement Award for his work in teaching medicine to children. He was recently honored as an Internet Health Hero by Intel's Internet Health Initiative.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395465567
• ISBN 13: 9780395465561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 295