Description |
xi, 217 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Part 1. The driven personality : what it's like and how it got that way -- Identifying the driven personality -- How did I get this way? : the tree grows where it can -- Part 2. Realizing your driven potential -- Four steps to becoming a healthier compulsive -- Identify your story to develop insight -- Engage emotionally with deeper layers of feeling and parts of yourself -- Cultivate meaning : clarify your aspirations and set your priorities -- Take action : commit to behavior that honors your aspirations -- Part 3. Dangers and opportunities on the road ahead : applying the tools of change to Fulcrum issues -- Body -- Time and money -- Work and career -- People, partners, and parenting -- Rest and play -- Pyschological growth : vicissitudes of the inner game -- Part 4. Support for the road ahead -- Support for the compulsive's journey -- Support and suggestions for the compulsive's partner. |
Summary |
Gary Trosclair explores the power of the driven personality and the positive outcomes those with obsessive compulsive personality disorder can achieve through a mindful program of harnessing the skills that can work, and altering those that serve no one... Unlike OCD, which results in specific symptoms such as repetitive hand-washing and intrusive thoughts, OCPD permeates the entire personality and dramatically affects relationships. It also requires a different approach to healing. Both scientifically informed and practical, The Healthy Compulsive describes how compulsives get off track and outlines a four-step program to help them consciously cultivate the talents and passions that are the truly compelling sources of the driven personality. Drawing from his 25 years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and Jungian psychoanalyst, and his own personal experience as someone with a driven personality, Trosclair offers understanding, inspiring stories of change, and hope to compulsives and their partners about how to move to the healthy end of the compulsive spectrum. |
Subject(S) |
Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Personality disorders.
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ISBN |
9781538132609 (hardcover) |
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1538132605 (hardcover) |
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