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Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety : Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions by Peter Roger Breggin is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

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With the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs examines the causes and effects of psychological and emotional suffering from the perspective of biological evolution, child development, and mature adult decision-making. Drawing on evolution, neuroscience, and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Breggin analyzes what he calls our negative legacy emotions?the painful emotional heritage that encumbers all human beings. The author marshals evidence that we evolved as the most violent and yet most empathic creatures on Earth. Evolution dealt with this species-threatening conflict between our violence and our close-knit social life by building guilt, shame, and anxiety into our genes. These inhibiting emotions were needed prehistorically to control our self-assertiveness and aggression within intimate family and clan relationships.?? Dr. Breggin shows how guilt, shame, and anxiety eventually became self-defeating and demoralizing legacies from our primitive past that no longer play any useful or positive role in mature adult life. He then guides the reader through the Three Steps to Emotional Freedom,

Who reads Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety : Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions?

Author

Peter Roger Breggin

Publisher

Prometheus Books, Publishers

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616147211

Category

health

Subjects

Psychology, Psychological Disorders, Social_sciences

Rating

4.3 / 5 (215 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14