The perfection deception : why striving to be perfect is sabotaging your relationships, making you sick, and holding your happiness hostage

Summary: Most people mistakenly confuse perfectionism with a healthy striving for excellence, but there is a big difference. One can lead to great achievement or great learning, by allowing us to take risks, make mistakes, and forge ahead anyway. The other is a psychological wound that invites constant comparison with others, and traps us with all-or-nothing thinking that can paralyze us in a cycle of indecision, fear, and self-loathing. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Jane Bluestein shows us the truth about perfectionism.

Item details

ISBN: 9780757318252
ISBN: 0757318258
ISBN: 9780757318269
Physical Description: print
xii, 299 pages : charts ; 22 cm
Publisher: Deerfield Beach, Florida : Health Communications, Inc., [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-299) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: Welcome to Our Perfect World -- 1. "What's Wrong with Perfectionism?" -- 2. The Culture of Perfectionism -- 3. Reality as Defined by the Media -- Part II: Building a Perfectionist -- 4. Risk and Vulnerability -- 5. Safe and Secure -- 6. Shaping Our Reality -- 7. Building Our Identity -- Part III: The Problem with Perfect -- 8. Through the Looking Glass: Living in a Distorted Reality -- 9. Living on the Dark Side: A Tendency Toward Negativity -- 10. Establishing Our Value -- 11. The Perfect Sabotage -- 12. The Perfect Relationship: Power and Perfectionism -- 13. The Perfect Stress for Body and Mind -- Part IV: Getting Real, Getting Well -- 14. Living with Imperfection -- 15. Being Your Biggest, Baddest Self -- 16. Developing Psychological Strength -- 17. Connecting with Others -- 18. Moving Forward: Mind and Body -- Notes.

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