The Emotionally Abused Woman

Informationen zum Autor Beverly Engel, MFCC, is a nationally recognized psychotherapist and sex therapist with over 30 years of experience, as well as a bestselling author. She is the author of The Right to Innocence, The Emotionally Abused Woman, Partners in Recovery, Encouragements for the Emotionally Abused Woman, Families in Recovery , and Raising Your Sexual Self-Esteem . She has shared her expertise on The Oprah Winfrey Show , The Phil   Donahue Show , The Sally Jessy Raphael Show , and Ricki Lake . Klappentext "A sensible book! full of insight and hope!"* that offers support and guidance in freeing emotionally abused women from the cycle of abuse and establishing new healthy patterns of relating to others. *Booklist • Does your husband or lover constantly criticize you and put his needs before yours? • Do you sometimes wonder if your best friend is truly a friend? • Does your boss try to control your every move? • Does your fear of being left alone keep you in chronically hurtful relationships? If any of these questions sound familiar! you could very well be suffering from emotional abuse-the most widespread but also the most hidden abuse that women experience. This type of abuse is just as damaging as physical or sexual abuse. But there is help in this invaluable compassionate sourcebook. As a marriage! family! and child therapist who has grappled with these issues herself! Beverly Engel guides you through a step-by-step recover process! helping you shed the habits begun in childhood and take the first few steps toward healthy change. Using numerous examples drawn from case history and her own therapeutic expertise! Engel will show you how to • Recognize and understand the abusers in your life • Identify the patterns that have kept you emotionally trapped • Complete your unfinished business • Decide whether to walk away from an abusive relationship or take a stand and stay • Heal the damage of abuse by building self-esteem • Break the cycle of abuse and open yourself to the promise of healthy relationships CHAPTER 1 The Emotionally Abused Woman   The emotionally abused woman is a particular type of woman, a woman who has established a pattern of continually being emotionally abused by those she is involved with, whether it be her lover or husband, her boss, her friends, her parents, her children, or her siblings. No matter how successful, how intelligent, or how attractive she is, she still feels “less than” other people. Despite perhaps having taken assertion-training classes, she still feels afraid to stand up for herself in her relationships and is still victimized by her low self-esteem, her fear of authority figures, or her need to be taken care of by others. She was emotionally abused as a child, but she may or may not recognize how extensively this kind of childhood abuse continues to affect her life.   Sometimes I just hate myself. I don’t know why, but I let everybody walk all over me—my boss, my husband, my kids, even my friends. I agree to do things I don’t want to do, I go places I don’t want to go, and all the while I resent it. I just can’t bring myself to say no to people, no matter how hard I try. I can’t believe I did it again! Each time I fall in love I think that he is the one, that I have finally found someone who will treat me with kindness and concern. But they all end up to be jerks who he to me, use me, and end up not even caring about me. What’s wrong with me that I keep doing this? Why can’t I spot the loser, the jerk, instead of always being taken in? I’m thirty-seven years old, and yet when it comes to men I have the judgment of a teenager!   These words were spoken by women who have grown and changed in many significant ways. Nevertheless, they continue to choose partners and friends who cause them pain and embarra...

Product details

• Authors: Engel, Beverly Engel, Beverly Mfcc Engel
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.01.1992
• EAN: 9780449906446
• ISBN: 978-0-449-90644-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Fawcett Book; Fawcett Book
• Subject: Guides > Health