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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. Drawing on
evolution, neuroscience, and decades of clinical experience, Dr.
Breggin analyzes what he calls our negative legacy emotions-the
painful emotional heritage that encumbers all human beings. The
author marshals evidence that we evolved as the most violent and
yet most empathic creatures on Earth. 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. These inhibiting emotions were needed prehistorically to
control our self-assertiveness and aggression within intimate
family and clan relationships. Dr. Breggin shows how guilt, shame,
and anxiety eventually became self-defeating and demoralizing
legacies from our primitive past that no longer play any useful or
positive role in mature adult life. He then guides the reader
through the Three Steps to Emotional Freedom, starting with how to
identify negative legacy emotions and then how to reject their
control over us. Finally, he describes how to triumph over and
transcend guilt, shame, and anxiety on the way to greater emotional
freedom and a more rational, loving, and productive life.
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