Your Assumptions: How They Control Your Life and What To Do About Them addresses the source of most of our own (and the world’s) problems: the assumptions that lead us to do the things we do, most of which are out of our awareness. In the opening two chapters, “About Assumptions” and “The Assumptive Process,” Dr. Bogart provides a clear understanding of what assumptions are and how they operate. The next five chapters invite the reader to explore their own assumptions about • Who you think you are • Your personal growth • Marriage • Aging • Death and dying In each of the chapters that follow, recognized experts in their respective professions examine with the author the assumptions that work for them in chapters titled • Parenting, Child Care and Special Education • Making it in the Corporate World • Making it in Small Business. In addition, each chapter is followed with a self-study “What To Do About Them” set of assignments designed to expand the reader’s self-awareness.
Victor Bogart is one stubborn critter. Not only has he managed to survive into his eightieth year in excellent health and spirits, he persists in writing books that bring fresh ideas, new ways of looking at everyday human behavior, and self-helpful suggestions for how each of us can improve our lives. Your Assumptions is such a book. It is also one of two published works* and two more in process that trace their origins to the early 1960s and their rich content to Vic’s professional life as psychotherapist and teacher. As for professional credentials, Vic is entitled to the honorific, Doctor, by virtue of a Ph.D. in Counseling and Gerontology (Oregon State University, 1985—at age 64!), and holds Master’s degrees in Social Work (University of Washington, 1966) and Journalism (University of California at Berkeley, 1962). His years of active engagement as journalist, psychotherapist, teacher, and author of non-fiction self-help books add up to half a century and counting. But it is the melding of ALL the varied experiences of his life, together with his optimism, humor and wisdom that he freely shares with us in his writing. You can also contact him via his personal e-mail address: vicbogart@aol.com. Vic and his wife Nikki live in Eugene, Oregon.
* Vic’s first book: Odyssey: A Psychotherapist’s Journey Along the Cutting Edge was published in 1993. For more information, go to the Web site or e-mail address above.
