Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships

Book info: Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships (Kindle, 224 pages) – Praeger, 2018. Language: English.

2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)--Gold Medal in Psychology/Mental Health Two veteran psychiatrists unravel the mystery of how thought and emotional patterns are passed from parents to children, generation after generation, "conditioning" each of us in ways that endure throughout our lives and affect all of our relationships.* Explores a groundbreaking concept developed by two psychiatrists with 80 years of combined experience in dynamic psychotherapy with almost 2,000 patients* Offers strategies to help readers liberate themselves from limiting ways of relating to others, avoid automatic emotional responses, live life with intention, and create happier relationships* Brings to life the principles presented through vignettes from dynamic psychotherapy treatment* Inclusive of the LGBT experienceLiving on Automatichas won the following awards:Finalist in the Best New Non-Fiction category of the 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book FestForeword INDIES Finalist, 2018 Book of the Year Award, in Adult Nonfiction, Family & Relationships category