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

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

by Christine Adams (Author), Christine Adams (Author), Mary Schwab (Foreword), Homer Martin (Author)

Synopsis

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.


* Explores a groundbreaking concept developed by two psychiatrists with 80 years of combined experience in dynamic psychotherapy with almost 2,000 patients

* Offers strategies to help readers liberate themselves from limiting ways of relating to others, avoid automatic emotional responses, live life with intention, and create happier relationships

* Brings to life the principles presented through vignettes from dynamic psychotherapy treatment

* Inclusive of the LGBT experience

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 03 Aug 2018

ISBN 10: 1440865183
ISBN 13: 9781440865183

Author Bio

The late Homer B. Martin, MD, practiced general (adult) psychiatry for 40 years in Louisville, KY. He trained at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, MD and practiced forensic psychiatry in Baltimore, MD.

Christine B. L. Adams, MD, has been in the private practice of child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry for 40 years. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.