How to Be Your Own Therapist : A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Competent, Confident Life

by Farrell, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780071387330
• ISBN10: 0071387331
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-17
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Self-help tools that work with--or without--the aid of a therapistHow to Be Your Own Therapist provides tools for those who want to replace unhealthy behaviors with actions that bring satisfaction and success. Drawing from her 20 years as a licensed therapist, Dr. Patricia Farrell has developed an approach that enables individuals to manage their own lives by reclaiming the personal power to take action.With intelligence and insight, Dr. Farrell shares the innovative techniques and exercises that promote successful results in her own patients--patients whom Farrell quickly enables to move into independent problem-solving action. Also included here are dozens of proven self-assessment tests, compelling case studies, and helpful symptom-identification sidebars.Her "power tools" include how to: Fire one's parents Quit whining Make lots of mistakesStick up for oneself

Author Biography

Patricia A. Farrell, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in New Jersey. She holds masters and doctoral degrees in psychology from New York University and is a Clinical Professor of Doctoral Psychology at Walden University. She is a frequent guest on "The Maury Povich Show" and has also appeared on "Sally Jesse Raphael," " Montel Williams," "The View," "Court TV," "ABC World News," and "Inside Edition". Her print interviews include The Chicago Tribune, the New York Post, the Boston Globe, Psychology Today Online, the Atlanta Constitution, and Cosmopolitan. Dr. Farrell also serves as the Moderator/Expert for the Anxiety/Panic Board on Web-MD. She lives in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. IX
Foreword: A Call to Sanity: Coming Home to Yourself	p. XI
The Myth of Psychotherapy and the Promise of Healing
Seeking the Answers Within or Without	p. 3
The 10 Biggest Myths of Modern Psychotherapy	p. 13
Discoveries from the Toolbox: Ten Tools for Healing and Change
Challenge and Change	p. 27
Open Your Eyes & Face Reality	p. 39
Make Lots of Mistakes	p. 63
Quit Whining	p. 91
Act Like the Person You Want to Be	p. 111
Accept Yourself, Warts & All	p. 133
Fire Your Parents	p. 153
Challenge Authority	p. 179
Stick Up for Yourself	p. 203
Live Dangerously	p. 221
Give Up the Throne	p. 239
Afterword: On Your Way	p. 255
Notes	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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