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Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships

Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships

Adams, Christine
Martin, Homer
Schwab, Mary

Hardcover

CognitionGeneral ParentingMental Health

ISBN10: 1440865183
ISBN13: 9781440865183
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Aug 3 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Two veteran psychiatrists unravel the mystery of how thought and emotional patterns are passed from parents to children, generation after generation, conditioning each of us in ways that endure throughout our lives and affect all of our relationships.

Living on Automatic not only introduces the concept of emotional conditioning, including how it occurs and becomes entrenched in our minds, but also explains how individuals can decondition themselves to become more adept at choosing and negotiating more rewarding relationships.

Authored by two psychiatrists, the text draws from more than 80 years of their combined psychotherapy work with thousands of people. The authors focus on helping readers to understand their roles in relationships and to develop more rewarding relationships. Case studies and questions are provided to illustrate emotional conditioning and the personality roles that emerge from it. Readers will learn why people choose the mates that they do; why the ways we learn to relate as children often do not change later in life; and how to observe and engage in introspection to begin to decondition themselves from auto-pilot, knee-jerk emotional responses, allowing for the formation of better relationships with their spouse or partner, children, and other family members.

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