Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice

A Revolutionary Program to Counter Negative Thoughts and Live Free from Imagined Limitations

By: Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone, Joyce Catlett, Pat Love (Foreword by)

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The inner critic is the voice in our heads that whispers, whines, and needles us into poor self-esteem and self-confidence. It edits our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits our actions. It thinks it is protecting us from being hurt or feeling abandoned, but all it really does is reinforce our feelings of shame and guilt, sabotage our intimate relationships, and incline us to self-destructive behaviors. Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice presents a revolutionary new strategy for dealing with the inner critic: externalizing it. This subtle, powerful technique turns internal self-criticisms into 'you' statements that can be evaluated objectively and exposed as the gross exaggerations, unfair comparisons, or flat out lies they really are. This book takes you through the step-by-step process of learning how to keep track of your negative thoughts, analyze their reality, and recognize how they impact your life. Learn to use a variety of techniques to help release your inner critic's stranglehold and combat its subversive effect on your career achievement, intimate relationships, and sexuality. A final chapter of the book offers parents simple ways to help their children avoid forming a tyrannical inner critic.

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The self-help literature is strewn with the carcasses of superficial and glib advice. Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice presents a wise, bold, and provocative alternative to the limits of similar self-help books. The chapter on intimacy and couple relationships alone is worth the price of the book. Complex psychological phenomena are described in concrete and clear language. The authors offer numerous exercises to help the reader put the book's ideas to immediate use, and they include guidelines for therapists who may want to use the book in their work with patients in psychotherapy.
—Charles Bonner, Ph.D., clinical psychologist in private practice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Organization of This Book
A Note to Therapists
Understanding Your Critical Inner Voice
Becoming Familiar with Your Critical Inner Voice	p. 9
How Your Critical Inner Voice Controls Your Actions
Being for Yourself or against Yourself
How Did You Develop a Critical Inner Voice?
Your Defenses
The Real You and Your Critical Inner Voice
How the Critical Inner Voice Disrupts Your Everyday Life
Challenging the Critical Inner Voice by Taking Action
How Your Critical Inner Voice Creates Shame, Guilt, and Low Self-Esteem	p. 33
Identify When You Are Feeling Shame or Guilt
The Defenses on Which Guilt, Shame, and Low Self-Esteem Are Based
Critical Inner Voices Underlying Neurotic Guilt
Critical Inner Voices Underlying Existential Guilt
Combating Guilt, Shame, and Low Self-Esteem
Challenging The Critical Inner Voice
How the Critical Inner Voice Interferes with Your Career	p. 57
How Your Defenses Limit You in Your Career
Identify and Overcome Voices That Interfere with Your Creativity
How the Critical Inner Voice Influences Your Relationship	p. 75
How the Critical Inner Voice Interferes with Intimacy
How the Fantasy Bond Works in Relationships
How the Critical Inner Voice and the Fantasy Bond Work Together to Destroy Relationships
Signs of a Fantasy Bond in Your Relationship
Playing the Parent/Playing the Child
How We Defend Ourselves against Love
Three Defenses
Suggestions for Disrupting the Fantasy Bond
How the Critical Inner Voice Intrudes on Your Sexual Relationship	p. 97
Two Views of Sex
How Our Attitudes Toward Sex Are Influenced by Parents, Peers, and Society
Attitudes toward Our Bodies
Attitudes about Masturbation and Sex Play
Society's Attitudes about Sexuality
Voices During Sex
How Do You Relate Sexually? Two Kinds of Sex
How the Critical Inner Voice Seduces You into Addictive Behaviors	p. 117
How Addictive Behaviors Affect You
How Do We Come to Develop Addictions?
How the Critical Inner Voice Encourages Addictive Behaviors
Eating Disorders, Drug Abuse, and Alcoholism
How Compulsive Activities Can Become Addictive
Guidelines for Challenging Addictive Behaviors
How Listening to Your Critical Inner Voice Can Make You Feel Down and Depressed	p. 135
Have You Ever Been Depressed?
How Do You Usually React to Negative Events in Your Life?
What Does It Feel Like to Be Depressed?
The Continuum of Self-Destructive Behaviors and Critical Inner Voices
Combating Critical Inner Voices That Lead to Depression
Steps for Challenging Depression
How to Select a Therapist	p. 163
Factors to Consider in Making Your Choice
Personal Qualities of the Therapist That Are Conducive to Good Therapy
The Therapeutic Relationship
Guidelines for Living the "Good Life"
For Parents: Guidelines for Optimal Child Development	p. 171
Repeating Our Parents' Behaviors
Guilt about Not Always Feeling Love
Guidelines for Child Rearing
Living Free of Imagined Limitations--The "Good Life"	p. 187
What Does "Living the Good Life" Mean to You?
Guidelines for Continued Personal Development
Guidelines for Continued Personal Development in Your Relationship
Guidelines for Further Developing a Meaningful Life
Bibliography: Glendon Association Video Productions	p. 201
Suggested Reading	p. 207
References	p. 215
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