Guilt Shame and Anxiety Breggin Peter Roger M.D.
Guilt Shame and Anxiety Breggin Peter Roger M.D. With the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs examines the…
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Guilt Shame and Anxiety Breggin Peter Roger M.D.
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. Breggin analyzes what he calls our negative legacy emotions-the painful emotional heritage that encumbers all human beings. Drawing on evolution, neuroscience, and decades of clinical experience, Dr.
Evolution dealt with this species-threatening conflict between our violence and our close-knit social life by building guilt, shame, and anxiety into our genes. The author marshals evidence that we evolved as the most violent and yet most empathic creatures on Earth. These inhibiting emotions were needed prehistorically to control our self-assertiveness and aggression within intimate