Make the Leap: A Practical Guide to Breaking the Patterns That Hold You Back - Softcover

Silverberg PhD, Farrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569244189 ISBN 13: 9781569244180

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2005

Synopsis

A landmark, paradigm-shifting, life-improving tool, Make the Leap does for the idea of patterns what Gail Sheehy's book did for passages. In clear, no-nonsense language, longtime and leading psychoanalyst and teacher Farrell Silverberg brilliantly distills the key psychoanalytic principles about why people fall into the rut of unproductive patterns. And he presents a totally original yet simple and accessible step-by-step plan for how to break these patterns, once and for all. Drawing on many of the author's riveting, illuminative cases in his over twenty-five years of experience as a practicing analyst, Silverberg offers a supremely effective and revolutionary tool—one that will help turn all readers who feel they have potential but can't make the leap to living up to it into people who are in charge of their lives and fulfilling their potential.

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About the Author

DR. FARRELL SILVERBERG, Ph.D., is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis and the Institute for Modern Psychoanalysis in New York City. He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Program in Integrative Psychiatry at the University of Arizona Medical School (part of The Program in Integrative Medicine founded by Dr. Andrew Weil). The author of many articles on psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and East-West psychology, he has been in private practice since 1984 in Philadelphia, where he lives.

Reviews

A psychoanalyst in private practice for many years, Silverberg makes the valid but oft-reiterated point that many people are held back from achieving their goals by their adherence to self-defeating ways of thinking and behaving. These unconscious patterns, according to Silverberg, must be raised to a conscious level to be overcome. He provides a complex program for this called SUBGAP, an acronym for seeing, understanding, breaking and guarding against patterns. Silverberg claims he has simplified dense psychoanalytic principles so that people can practice them without the help of a professional. Those who profit from sticking to a narrowly defined, exhaustively detailed program may take to his approach, but Silverberg's steps—with top-down and bottom-up pattern-hunting—may still be too complex for many. The case histories he offers are more illuminating than the program. For example, Mitch created brilliant ad campaigns, but he was demoted because his perfectionism created extra costs and extra work for others. Mitch learned to apply his attention to detail to recognizing and breaking his pattern and set his career back on track. It's an inspiring story—but not easy to learn to do on your own.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569244189
• ISBN 13: 9781569244180
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240