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

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.

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.