Lethal Lovers and Poisonous People: How to Protect Your Health from Relationships That Make You Sick - Softcover

Braiker, Harriet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595182739 ISBN 13: 9780595182732

Publisher: iUniverse, 2001

Synopsis

ARE YOU INVOLVED IN A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP?The symptoms vary from stomach pains to blinding headaches, from chronic backaches to severe coldsThe causes are variedfrom a spouse who is withdrawing sexually, to a parent who is overly critical, to a lover who isnt ready to commit, to a boss who is abusiveThere are periods of stress in every relationship, but psychological studies reveal that some relationships can reach poisonous levels of toxic emotionsand that our response to these stresses can be harmful to our emotional and physical health.Are you involved in such a relationship? If so, what can you do about it? Lethal Lovers and Poisonous People shows you!

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About the Author

Dr. Harriet Braiker is a practicing clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, where she has helped hundreds of patients conquer low moods, the blues, and common feelings of depression. Her books include Getting Up When Youre Feeling Down: A Womans Guide to Overcoming and Preventing Depression, The Type E Woman: How to Overcome the Stress of Being Everything to Everybody and Lethal Lovers and Poisonous People: How to Protect Your Health from Relationships That Make You Sick.

From Publishers Weekly

"Warning: This relationship may be harmful to your health," declares psychotherapist Braiker ( The E Type Woman ) in this self-help book designed to prevent or cure stress-induced negative emotions--anxiety, guilt, depression and loss of self-esteem, in this case caused by others (insensitive husbands, bad bosses and problem relatives among them). Examining clinical examples, the author demonstrates that such feelings can result in physical ills ranging from cardiac or intestinal dysfunctions to cancer and the common cold. She also provides questionnaires to test the "toxicity" of relationships and lists techniques for use in "detoxification"; readers may find these simplistic. While conceding that all relationships cannot be saved, Braiker advises "calm verbalization of anger" and the use of mental imagery to eliminate negative thoughts.
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About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0595182739
• ISBN 13: 9780595182732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272