An edition of The perfection deception (2015)

The perfection deception

why trying to be perfect is sabotaging your relationships, making you sick, and holding your happiness hostage

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An edition of The perfection deception (2015)

The perfection deception

why trying to be perfect is sabotaging your relationships, making you sick, and holding your happiness hostage

  • 5 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

Most people mistakenly confuse perfectionism with a healthy striving for excellence, but there is a big difference. One can lead to great achievement or great learning, by allowing us to take risks, make mistakes, and forge ahead anyway. The other is a psychological wound that invites constant comparison with others, and traps us with all-or-nothing thinking that can paralyze us in a cycle of indecision, fear, and self-loathing. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Jane Bluestein shows us the truth about perfectionism.

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English
Pages
299

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Table of Contents

Part I: Welcome to Our Perfect World
1. "What's Wrong with Perfectionism?"
2. The Culture of Perfectionism
3. Reality as Defined by the Media
Part II: Building a Perfectionist
4. Risk and Vulnerability
5. Safe and Secure
6. Shaping Our Reality
7. Building Our Identity
Part III: The Problem with Perfect
8. Through the Looking Glass: Living in a Distorted Reality
9. Living on the Dark Side: A Tendency Toward Negativity
10. Establishing Our Value
11. The Perfect Sabotage
12. The Perfect Relationship: Power and Perfectionism
13. The Perfect Stress for Body and Mind
Part IV: Getting Real, Getting Well
14. Living with Imperfection
15. Being Your Biggest, Baddest Self
16. Developing Psychological Strength
17. Connecting with Others
18. Moving Forward: Mind and Body
Notes.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
155.2/32
Library of Congress
BF698.35.P47 B58 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 299 pages
Number of pages
299

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27195872M
Internet Archive
perfectiondecept0000blue
ISBN 10
0757318258
ISBN 13
9780757318252
LCCN
2015027944
OCLC/WorldCat
902766919

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