Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions

by Peter R. Breggin

Book Overview

With the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs examines the causes and effects of psychological and emotional suffering from the perspective of biological evolution, child development, and mature adult decision-making. Drawing on evolution, neuroscience, and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Breggin analyzes what he calls our negative legacy emotions-the painful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616141492
• ISBN13: 9781616141493
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"