What is it about?
Most of personal suffering surrounds losing love, the fear of love, or the rejection of love. Beyond that, when we become psychologically helpless about these issues it can cause deep despair, depression, and unhappiness. These two causes of most psychological misery--psychological helplessness and failures in love--are explored in depth.
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Why is it important?
This is about the primary or underlying causes of most human psychological, emotional, and spiritual suffering.
Perspectives
This article delves into issues I have explored for most of life and understanding and applying them could change your life for the better. It is not just about abstract psychology but has widespread applications to everyday life and how we live and prosper.
Peter Breggin
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This page is a summary of: Psychological helplessness and feeling undeserving of love: Windows into suffering and healing., The Humanistic Psychologist, June 2020, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/hum0000175.
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The Best Stuff I've learned from life
This video looks in depth at what I've learned from a long career and even longer life. It's about having a successful life filled with love, professional success and creativity. It's a one hour episode of weekly my radio/TV show. It draws on my book Guilt, Shame and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions. But it's more personal and to the point about what really works in making a goodf life.
Dr. Peter Breggin's Home page
This huge website represents the cutting edge of criticism of conventional psychiatry and the promotion of empathic caring alternatives for offering genuine help. It makes available for free nearly all of Dr. Breggin's published papers and offers his books for sale. It has a free Fresh Daily News on pioneering issues in the field of mental health and life, a free newsletter called Frequent Alerts, and massive resources on the dangers of psychiatric drugs.
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