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Empathy for the Devil: Make Your Demons Work for You. Without Selling Your Soul. Kindle Edition
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- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherO-Books
- Publication dateOctober 29, 2021
- File size1959 KB
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Jerry Hyde has traveled deep within himself as well as to the farthest horizons to understand how harm comes to us and how it may be healed. There is a profound, urgent wisdom in his work that is carried along almost pell-mell by his enthusiasm for humanity and for life. I loved it.
-- Sebastian Junger --This text refers to the paperback edition.About the Author
Jerry Hyde has worked in film, theatre, TV, and the music business. After retraining as a psychotherapist he has had a fairly conventional career, until losing the plot and rebranding himself in the somewhat 'out-there' style for which he's become known. He lives in London, UK.
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- ASIN : B09DSV3M72
- Publisher : O-Books (October 29, 2021)
- Publication date : October 29, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 1959 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 155 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1789047315
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,274,939 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #552 in Good & Evil Philosophy
- #1,402 in Philosophy of Good & Evil
- #2,713 in Emotions & Mental Health
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So the book is written by a clinical psychotherapist, with 20+ years of experience of working one on one with men and running weekly men’s groups for the same time. So he’s got the experience in the trenches. But normally with therapists, you also get boring, straight-laced, and generally uninspiring humans too. This guy is very different, which is pretty evident from the opening page about him taking toad halucinegenic to explore the inner workings of ones darkest repressed psyche! Plus he’s a guitarist, so he’s clearly a bit cooler than your average shrink. Anyway, that’s all just to say this will be a bit different to your normal self help book.
The general concept is to own up to and face your demons, rather than repress them. We’ve all seen what happens to priests when they repress, eh? It’s also reassuring that a therapist is still learning and growing himself as he guides us through his own experiences.
Haven’t finished yet, as it’s challenging, deep work and only had it for a day or two. The questions at end of each chapter (see photo example) are almost the best bit and take it from a good read to real work on yourself that you can revisit over time as a check-in.
It’s something out of the ordinary, there’s 100s of books on Amazon in this field but none like this and will give you a different route into yourself.
Go buy it. Now. Or else the demon inside you will get you.


Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 10, 2021
So the book is written by a clinical psychotherapist, with 20+ years of experience of working one on one with men and running weekly men’s groups for the same time. So he’s got the experience in the trenches. But normally with therapists, you also get boring, straight-laced, and generally uninspiring humans too. This guy is very different, which is pretty evident from the opening page about him taking toad halucinegenic to explore the inner workings of ones darkest repressed psyche! Plus he’s a guitarist, so he’s clearly a bit cooler than your average shrink. Anyway, that’s all just to say this will be a bit different to your normal self help book.
The general concept is to own up to and face your demons, rather than repress them. We’ve all seen what happens to priests when they repress, eh? It’s also reassuring that a therapist is still learning and growing himself as he guides us through his own experiences.
Haven’t finished yet, as it’s challenging, deep work and only had it for a day or two. The questions at end of each chapter (see photo example) are almost the best bit and take it from a good read to real work on yourself that you can revisit over time as a check-in.
It’s something out of the ordinary, there’s 100s of books on Amazon in this field but none like this and will give you a different route into yourself.
Go buy it. Now. Or else the demon inside you will get you.





Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 9, 2021


The book meanders about freely under the three (very loose) banners of Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll and is an easy read. There are nuggets buried everywhere but also some powerful themes running all the way through, which the author returns to when least expected. One is addiction and the pain it soothes. This, for me, is where the book does its heaviest lifting. Anyone coming to realise they have an addiction will get a lot from the refreshingly honest and direct way in which it is tackled.
One of the other ways in which this is not a typical self-help book is that it doesn't take itself too seriously, with the author's self deprecating style and sense of the absurd in this world running all the way through. The author isn't slow to offer insights and anecdotes, either in support of a theme or just, one senses, because he felt like an interesting digression. He has plenty to say about climate change, globalisation, misogyny, racism, war and the loss of the tribe.
Yet the book doesn't wander too far from the therapy path, and there is plenty of hard advice, with every chapter ending in an exercise for the reader which looks easy until you try doing it... A valuable read.


there are lots of enlightening and challenging exercises to do. it was like looking in an inner mirror. filled with daemons and love.