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Emotional Resilience: Simple Truths for Dealing with the Unfinished Business of Your Past [Paperback]

David Viscott M.D. (Author)
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April 7, 1997
Emotional resilience is something we all want and need in order to face life unencumbered by unrealistic fears and to communicate freely with the people we love most.  

This book by expert David Viscott is a handbook for living the life you want and deserve. Reading Emotional Resilience is like having your own wise and supportive therapist at your elbow, helping you through hard times, difficult days, and unhappy relationships. All of the knowledge and insight of Dr. Viscott's distinguished career is distilled into this book and its ten basic truths that can change your life.

                        1. Tell the truth.
                        2. Face life openly. (what you avoid imprisons you.)
                        3. Say what you mean, feel, believe.
                        4. Accept yourself as you are.
                        5. Accept others as they are.
                        6. Know and accept your weaknesses.
                        7. Stop trying to prove yourself.
                        8. Let go of the past.
                        9. Give up false expectations.
                        10.  Take responsibility for your life and how it turned out.
                           What you are willing to take responsibility for frees you.

Dr. Viscott has spent three decades engineering therapeutic breakthroughs for his patients; in nearly all of these cases, it was the acceptance of some previously concealed truth that opened the way for healing to begin. The book's cardinal rule--resolve pain at the moment it arises--is remarkably simple, and it works! Read Emotional Resilience and resolve what's getting in the way of your sense of freedom and happiness now. Telling the truth and making positive choices can become a way of life.  

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Bestselling self-help author Viscott maintains, somewhat idealistically, that the secret of mental health is to "express your pain the moment it occurs." Blocked feelings, emotional dishonesty, lies and dissimulation defeat trust and thwart the expression of love, observes this Los Angeles psychiatrist and radio show host. In a pragmatic handbook for self-healing, he outlines "natural therapy," a system for being truthful about one's feelings, whether through leveling with one's partner, coming to terms with an old hurt or accepting a painful loss. "Emotional debt," i.e., the withholding of feeling, generates unresolved inner conflicts, stress, anger, guilt, depression. "Toxic nostalgia," the intrusion of buried feelings and attitudes into the present, can take many forms, he says, including anxiety attacks, somatic complaints, prejudices, playing the victim and self-destructiveness. Viscott also identifies three basic character types?dependent, controlling, competitive?based on a person's use of defense mechanisms such as denial, pretense and blame. Notwithstanding the jargon, the writing is clear and straightforward. Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Do-it-yourself home therapy with a 100,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 358 pages
  • Publisher: Three Rivers Press (April 7, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0517888254
  • ISBN-13: 978-0517888254
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Heal and Change Your Life Now!!, October 5, 2005
This review is from: Emotional Resilience: Simple Truths for Dealing with the Unfinished Business of Your Past (Paperback)
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Do you know what these are?

(1) Lie.
(2) Try to change or fix others.
(3) Expect the person who hurt you to apologize.
(4) Expect others to recognize your goodness or accomplishments.
(5) Wait for permission to do what is best for you.

These are 5 truths of things NOT to do to change and heal your life. They are found in the brief last chapter of this book by the late Dr. David Viscott, a well-known psychiatrist. There are 8 more of these don'ts. As well, there are 14 truths that you should do to heal and change your life. (This makes for a total of 27 "Dos and Don'ts.")

This book is a kind of handbook to successfully get through the emotional bumps of life that everybody encounters. Viscott explains more eloquently:

"This book is designed to help you achieve and preserve your emotional resilience, so you can face the difficult threats of the present and manage them effectively without being drained, feeling bad about yourself, or second-guessing your actions."

This book centers around three main concepts:

(1) Natural Therapy: refers to the spontaneous process (that this book advocates) that enables healing and change to occur.

(2) Emotional Debt: the condition of withholding feelings. This works on the principle that when feelings are not expressed, a condition of tension is created. Thus, emotional stress is the pressure of unexpressed feelings. What you want to strive for is to limit emotional debt.

(3) Toxic Nostalgia: the intrusion of past feelings into the present that bring up fear, anger, or hurt. These past feelings are stored in emotional debt.

Finally, this is a surprisingly easy book to read. There is no tedious psychobabble to contend with and you will begin learning right away.

In conclusion, read this book and resolve what's bothering you and getting in the way of your sense of freedom and happiness right now!!

(first published 1996; acknowledgments; introduction; 14 chapters; main narrative 355 pages; index)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book for those serious about changing behavioural patterns, September 29, 2001
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Julia Manitius (Gudhjem, Denmark) - See all my reviews
David Viscott's "Emotional Resilience" is a tightly packed book that provides the tools needed to unravel the behavioral and emotional tangles that complicate our lives, and to move on as emotionally healthier and happier individuals. The book is for people who are serious about breaking out of old patterns and who are ready and willing to confront themselves. Using phrases such as emotional debt, and toxic nostalgia Viscott indicates where emotions have needed to be addressed and how our personalities have developed as a result of not having done so. "Emotional Resilience" is by no means easy reading and digesting the contents may take repeated readings at different periods of time. I have reread sections of the book many times, and each time I learn something new. Viscott has provided me with the tools I needed to move out of old patterns and to realize myself as self-reliant adult. I cannot recommend Viscotts "Emotional Resilience" more highly!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Concise presentation with a hopeful outlook, May 24, 2005
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The crux of Viscott's message in Emotional Resilience is that individuals must resolve pain the moment it arises in order to become resilient. He presents his ideas in 10 steps and adopts a therapy-focused tone. This book brilliantly addresses how individuals who are struggling with unexpressed feelings and pain from their past can make breakthroughs.
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WHILE COMPLEX EMOTIONS can be reduced to a simple formula, simple emotions can seem incomprehensible when you are embroiled in your own difficulties. Read the first page
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natural therapeutic process, nostalgic episode, coping phase, nostalgic event, competitive person, controlling person, controlling period, stored feelings, emotional resilience, stored anger, healing perspective, competitive period, dependent period, stored emotions, natural healing process, troublesome dreams, dependent person, competitive people, intellectual defenses, unresolved pain, defensive style
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Emotional Debt, Toxic Nostalgia, Feeling Cycle, Jack Nicklaus
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