Author: Peter Michaelson
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ISBN: 9781521115350
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Languages : en
Pages : 339
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The human mind is hungry for truth and the human spirit is starving for consciousness. This book is a big mouthful of high-protein mental nutrition. People are ready now to acquire the knowledge that puts an end to misery and failure.Psychotherapist Peter Michaelson's insightful book reveals and explains the human tendency to recycle and replay unresolved negative emotions that produce suffering and self-defeat.Most readers will immediately realize that this deep psychological knowledge is entirely new to them.We are, in a sense, addicted to our suffering. How is that possible? The notion seems preposterous. Unfortunately, it's true--and this book shows exactly how most adults, in varying degrees, continue unwittingly and compulsively to experience and recycle unresolved emotions.Whatever form your unhappiness takes, the knowledge in Why We Suffer can save you from failure, self-defeat, and misery. Are you depressed? Do you feel confused, overwhelmed, disappointed, angry, and dispirited? Perhaps you're failing at some of your endeavors and feel you can't get your intelligence into high gear. Are you lacking in self-regulation? Some of us just feel like we're stranded on the wrong planet.Why We Suffer makes it possible to see exactly how we produce this suffering. The book brings our psyche into sharp focus, revealing the precise psychological mechanisms at the heart of human dysfunction.This book also disputes the psychological establishment's contention that emotional suffering is caused mainly by such factors as cultural clashes, human malice, genetic anomalies, and brain biochemistry. The knowledge in Why We Suffer empowers individuals to resolve their suffering by showing precisely how inner conflict operates in our psyche.The content is practical, specific, and scientific, and it popularizes the most powerful knowledge from psychology. The writing is polished and the ideas simplified, and the material, while intellectually stimulating, can be read and understood by a high-school student.The knowledge in this book is based mainly on the work of Edmund Bergler M.D. (1899-1962), a psychoanalytic psychiatrist who wrote 25 books and almost 300 articles published in professional journals. He is largely unknown because the deep knowledge he produced is covered up by our psychological defenses.Bergler's writing, which is laden with clinical terminology, does put difficult demands on readers. In a sense, Michaelson, a former journalist and science writer, is his translator. He communicates Bergler's ideas with a skill he has honed over many years of teaching these concepts and writing about them. (Revised and updated, December, 2014.)
Author: Peter Michaelson
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ISBN: 9781882631209
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Languages : en
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Why We Suffer is the amazing story of what mainstream psychology has failed to teach the world. The author, Peter Michaelson, is a former journalist and science writer who has been in private practice as a psychotherapist for more than 25 years. This book reveals how we hide from our awareness--through resistance, denial, and psychological defenses--the existence of a hidden flaw in our psyche. This unconscious, mental-emotional processing dysfunction is a grave danger to each of us personally and to all of us collectively. Through our defense system, we cover up awareness of this inner dysfunction.This flaw in human nature produces irrationality, self-defeat, and negative emotions. It gets the best of us only when we fail to become conscious of it. When we expose it, we begin to remedy the problem. When this flaw no longer contaminates our inner life, we feel, just for starters, our goodness and our value more fully, and we're more respectful of the goodness and value of others.Most of us have problems or challenges we would like to resolve. Collectively, we also have challenging national and worldwide problems that need to be corrected. We may not be up to these challenges if we're not conscious enough of our inner dynamics. Handicapped by a lack of self-knowledge, how can we trust ourselves to avoid conflict and self-defeat? We will fail repeatedly to learn from history.A lot of good ideas are in circulation for making ourselves and the world a better place. But good ideas aren't enough in themselves. This hidden flaw can keep good ideas from being acted on because it compels us, at best, to be indecisive, confused, and prone to dissension. At worst, it produces self-defeat and self-destruction. This negative effect consistently trumps our good ideas and best intentions.This book reveals essential knowledge that humankind has been reluctant to accept. This knowledge involves our hidden, unconscious collusion in producing self-defeating emotions and behaviors. The key to taking charge of our life involves seeing more clearly than ever how our emotional nature is processed within us.
Author: Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781580510431
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Addressing difficult questions in a readable, pastoral style, Father Harrington helps you draw meaningful and personal connections between Scripture and your own experience. Why Do We Suffer? helps you understand the concepts and context of suffering in the Bible.
Author: Fr. Francis. J. Remler
Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
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Suffering! Is anything more commonly man’s lot? Is anything harder to bear? Is there not, even for the most perfect men, one form or another in the range of suffering which would be found a trial? Who then among us but needs consolation? Who but needs at least to be forearmed? In the following fifteen reasons why God permits suffering, we trust the earnest reader will find light and consolation, which under God’s grace will disarm suffering of some of its bitterness, and make a blessing of what is often enough a stumbling block. First Reason: Sharing the Consequences of Original Sin Second Reason: Expiation of Public and National Sins Third Reason: Natural Results of Indiscretions Fourth Reason: Natural Results of Sins Against the Ten Commandments Fifth Reason: Temporal Punishment of Your Sins Sixth Reason: A Substitute for Purgatory Seventh Reason: The Body’s Share in Making Atonement Eighth Reason: Your Need of Conversion Ninth Reason: Your Need of Perfect Conversion Tenth Reason: Forestalling the Danger of Eternal Perdition Eleventh Reason: Making Atonement for the Sins of Others Twelfth Reason: Promoting the Welfare of the Church Thirteenth Reason: Procuring the Conversion of Sinners Fourteenth Reason: Acquiring Conformity with Jesus Christ Fifteenth Reason: Predestination to an Exalted Degree of Glory in Heaven
Author: TR Williams
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525531573
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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You are not alone if you struggle to understand why unwanted, unexplainable, and inconceivable bad things happen to innocent people! Never before have there been so many questions like: How could a loving God permit good people to suffer bad things and often make it appear as though the guilty are rewarded or go scot free? Why are there so many things in the world that seem unfair or unjust? Why does God seemingly hide his face from much of the horrific evil, pain and destruction? Does God really care? Is it fair for humans to be angry with God about their misfortune or suffering? Why are there so many good people accused falsely for their suffering? What defence mechanisms can I put in place to minimize evil, suffering, pain, misfortune, and the devil’s influence in my own life? What purpose does suffering, and pain serve in human life? These are some of the most thought-provoking, spiritually intuitive, deeply agitating, and most frequent questions asked by countless individuals, especially by those who believe that there is a God.
Author: Daniel Liderbach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809133192
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Daniel Liderbach tackles the tough question of why we suffer. His answer is deep and wide-ranging study of the greatest thinkers of the past, and the power of the human spirit to respond to suffering by means of myth in our religious tradition. He highlights this very source in the Book of Job and in the work of C.S. Lewis and creates a myth for our time that will help us face suffering with some understanding and hope.
Author: Lynn Gardner
Publisher: College Press
ISBN: 9780899007199
Category : Suffering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Blake D. Bauer
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1786780631
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Take charge of your health, happiness, and inner peace with this authoritative guide on treating yourself with kindness, acceptance, and compassion In this life-changing book, Blake Bauer explains why depression, addiction, physical illness, unfulfilling work, and relationship problems are caused by years of hiding your true emotions, denying your life purpose, and living in fear. Having already helped thousands of people find lasting solutions that conventional medicine, psychiatry, or religion couldn't offer, You Were Not Born to Suffer will show you how to free yourself from these destructive thoughts, habits, and situations that keep you from being happy and well. In simple practical steps you'll learn how to slow down and create a healthier relationship to yourself that is based on acceptance, kindness, honesty, and self-worth. You'll also find out how to transform the stress, anxiety, and insecurity that result from constantly trying to please others into lasting confidence, self-respect, and inner peace. Whether it's negative thinking, financial worry, loneliness, guilt, or self-doubt that's holding you back, Blake Bauer's words will move you to take better care of yourself, heal old pain, and courageously move forward. If you're ready to enjoy your life, feel passionate about your work, and create fulfilling relationships, this book will support you to live authentically, love wholeheartedly, and finally value yourself enough to put everyday health and happiness at the center of your life.
Author: M. R. DeHaan
Publisher: Our Daily Bread Publishing
ISBN: 1572935855
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 89
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Before M. R. DeHaan was teaching on Radio Bible Class, he was a physician and well acquainted with pain and suffering. Dr. DeHaan, in his book Broken Things—Why We Suffer, takes a biblical and practical look at suffering and helps you to discover that often it is through seasons of trial that God seeks to mold and shape you into His image. Applying the healing principles of God's Word, Dr. DeHaan encourages those who have been scarred by loss of employment, health, or by the death of a loved one, to find both hope and peace.
Author: Jeff Cavins
Publisher: Franciscan Media
ISBN: 9781616368708
Category : Suffering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An insightful look at the mystery of suffering and how to find meaning and joy in the midst of it.
