The Lies We Tell Ourselves

November 15, 2016

Directing readers toward a new tack in constructing a more complete life, psychotherapist and cochair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy training program Frederickson (Co-Creating Change) enables clients to acknowledge who they are absent excuses and explanations. The first tenet, of course, is to alter one's own actions, not wish for changes in others. The author compels readers to let fantasies go, to face what is real, and to accept suffering and their own feelings and desires, painful though it might be. His parting words encourage readers to relate to others by walking in their shoes. Verdict Commonplace advice but timely and thought-provoking.

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