Guilt: Letting Go

Freeman, Lucy Lucy Freeman, Herbert S. Strean,

ISBN 10: 0471616796 / ISBN 13: 9780471616795

Published by John Wiley & Sons, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guilt: Letting Go
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471616796
• ISBN 13: 9780471616795
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Shows how to understand and let go of your guilt. The first part deals with the causes of guilt, its manifestations, where it originates, how it works in the family and in personal relationships, and how it is manipulated by advertisers and salesmen. Describes the outlets it finds when it is denied, its relationship to fear and anger, shame and jealousy, and how it differs in men and women. The second part focuses on how to let go of the guilt the reader has been carrying around for years and includes chapters on denial, changing the inner script of the past, what to do when guilt persists, distinguishing between real guilt and imagined guilt, how to lessen it and how to cope with it.

From Publishers Weekly

Well known for Fight Against Fears and her many other self-help books, Freeman has collaborated with Strean, a psychotherapist, to produce this Freudian-oriented guide to coping with a nagging conscience. The first part of the text explores the roots of guiltin anxiety about a forbidden wish for sexual satisfaction or aggression. When this wish is frustrated, people feel anxious and then may experience anguish and guilt that can cripple self-esteem and be so paralyzing, the authors claim, that victims are subject to easy manipulation and an irrational sense of unworthiness. The book's second part contains the authors' advice to end the guilt trip by accepting the sexual and aggressive desires within oneself. The material is presented clearly, thanks in part to the book's many examples, culled presumably from Strean's practice. The writing is dense and somewhat dry, however. 25,000 ad/promo.
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