Self-Sabotage Syndrome: Adult Children in the Workplace [Paperback]

Janet G. Woititz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1989

Do you feel overwhelmed by your job? Are you so stressed on the job that you have headaches or stomachaches and can't sleep at night? Do you spend too much of your time thinking and talking about your job? Do you feel responsible for everything that goes wrong at work? Are you loyal to your boss and co-workers, even when they don't deserve it? Do you work well under pressure but have trouble completing long-term projects? Adult children of alcoholics are among any company's most productive and valuable employees -- dedicated, conscientious, capable and eager to please. But if you are an Adult Child and have answered "yes" to most of the questions above, you may be suffering from workaholism, burn-out or other work-related problems. This book shows you what to look for and how to make your worklife more satisfying and effective.

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About the Author

Janet Woititz was the author of Adult Children of Alcoholics, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year. She wrote several other books, including Lifeskills for Adult Children; The Self-Sabotage Syndrome; The Struggle for Intimacy; Marriage on the Rocks; Healing Your Sexual Self and many others. Woititz was the director and founder of the Institute for Counseling and Training in West Caldwell, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Paperback: 126 pages
• Publisher: HCI (December 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558740503
• ISBN-13: 978-1558740501
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #18 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Recovery > Adult Children of Alcoholics

More About the Author

Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D., is the founder and President of the Institute for Counseling and Training in West Caldwell, NJ, which specialized in working with dysfunctional families and individuals.

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73 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO WORK-RELATED PROBLEMS, September 3, 2000

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This review is from: Self-Sabotage Syndrome: Adult Children in the Workplace (Paperback)

If you have been losing jobs despite working "very hard", and you are an ACoA, this is the book that will finally answer the big question of "why! " ACoA's, as explained succinctly yet in detail by Woititz, have ingrained patterns of behavior that result in problems on the job. We can identify these patterns, come to understand where they came from, and finally, do something to change them! This book gave me far more insight than years of counseling - Woititz truly knows the ACoA!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding resource for "adult children", October 19, 2010

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This review is from: Self-Sabotage Syndrome: Adult Children in the Workplace (Kindle Edition)

I cannot recommend this book enough. It is short, and quick to read/skim, but it helped me SO MUCH in identifying issues that I'm dealing with - and once I'm aware of the issue (and in my case, how common my problems are among adults who grew up in instable circumstances) it helps me try to stop the behavior or my thinking. This is not only for children of alcoholics - my parents were not, though one grandparent was, and his drinking and behaviors, and his only child's anger and codependency, created enough of a stew to mess me up but good for 30+ years. Awareness is power, though, and now I can see where I'm acting out my childhood fear and insecurity at the office.

53 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Self-Sabotage Syndrome, April 14, 2002

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C. Williams "gnatelee" (Overland Park, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Self-Sabotage Syndrome: Adult Children in the Workplace (Paperback)

From the moment I started to read this book, I was 'smacked in the face' by the relevence of this book in my life at this "exact juncture" !.

I have just lost a job that I "loved", it was my "home away from home" (I actually used to say that...); my boss was my "best friend", I would do virtually ANYTHING to support and help him in the work place and in his failing personal life. I was terminated because his wife felt we were "too close" after two years of blind loyalty. Terminated ! No notice ! No severance ! Lost my job, my best friend, my source of income, my entire world/life.

READ THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE AN ADULT CHILD !!! I wish I had read it before. I will not be the 'enabler' and the 'fall guy' the next time.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that is an ADULT CHILD and find themselves without a job/sense of self/reason to live/purpose in life because the "job" and "your life" ARE NOT intertwined unless you allow them to be. I did not establish correct "boundries", and coincidentally, my previous "boss/best-friend" is an Adult Child also.

I just ordered the book to be delivered to my previous boss/best friend. Hopefully he will learn from this book as well, and not follow the same patterns.