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Betty was a 22 year old woman who was on her first job since
graduating from college. Despite her superior intelligence and her
many talents, Betty lived in fear that her work would not be up to
the expectations she set for herself and that she believed the job
demanded of her. She believed that her success were accidental.
Betty was dominated by echoes from her past that shouted "only A+'s
were acceptable. "Echoes of Inner Voices" is a book that deals with
such conflicts in relationship to authority, the job, marital
relationships, child rearing and the world at large.
A 12-year-old boy vows he will never do to his future family what
his father did by leaving the boy, his sister and mother. Yet, 30
years later, the boy now a man leaves his own family. A young woman
who's broken off an abusive relationship is now attracted to the
same kind of personality in a potential boyfriend. And an attorney
who grew up with an impossible-to-please father takes a job in a
firm where the boss thinks praise is never productive. These are
the kind of repetitive cycles that Stanley Rosner has seen time and
again in his practice across 40 years as a clinical psychologist. A
past president of the Connecticut Psychological Association, Rosner
examines in this book whether there is for some people a compulsion
to repeat self-destructive acts, and what the foundation for that
compulsion might be, as well as how it can be changed to afford
better, happier living. Assisted by popular author Patricia Hermes,
Rosner offers many eye-opening vignettes from his therapy rooms,
showing us clearly how early life events can create unconscious
dilemmas that move us to repeat the situation in other forms. He
aims to show us how we can resolve the issues that linger,
explaining how to recognize these issues, then move forward to put
them to rest in ways that are not self-sabotaging. "What I have to
offer," says Rosner, "is the opportunity for change."
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