Addicted to Unhappiness Free yourself from the moods and behaviors that undermine relationships, work, and the life you want

by Pieper, Martha; Pieper, William

• ISBN13: 9780071433693
• ISBN10: 0071433694
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-29
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Drawing upon their years of counseling experience, the bestselling author team of Martha and William Pieper explain how parenting styles based on discipline and excessive expectations condition children to equate unhappiness with love. This often persists into adulthood, leading to behaviors including eating disorders, compulsive gambling, disastrous romantic choices, substance abuse, and more. This book supplies readers with powerful tools, including self-assessments, checklists, diaries, and exercises, to overcome their need for unhappiness.

Author Biography

Martha H. Pieper, Ph.D., and William J. Pieper, M.D. (Chicago, IL) coauthored the bestselling Smart Love. They have been in private practice for more than 25 years. Both have pursued clinical research at the University of Chicago and other prestigious academic and professional institutions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Learning Unhappiness	p. 9
Confusing Unhappiness with Happiness	p. 15
Developing a Need for Relationship Conflict	p. 45
Self-Sabotage: The Unhappiness Fix	p. 69
Choosing Happiness	p. 93
Freeing Yourself from Painful Moods	p. 103
Conquering Your Resistance to Achieving Physical Well-Being	p. 125
Building Relationships Based on Closeness, Not Conflict	p. 147
Choosing Happiness at Work	p. 195
Afterword	p. 227
Glossary	p. 231
Index	p. 233
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