The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition
by Braiker, Harriet
- Used
In this bestseller now in paperback, frequent "Oprah" guest Dr. Harriet Braiker offers help for anyone who has ever felt the resentment of giving 100 percent to others and getting nothing in return.
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- Title The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome
- Author Braiker, Harriet
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-03-06
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4614820-75
- ISBN 9780071385640 / 0071385649
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.73 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Interpersonal communication, Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001267079
- Dewey Decimal Code 158.2
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What's wrong with being a "people pleaser?" Plenty!
"A fascinating book... If you struggle with where, when, and how to draw the line between your own desires and the demands of others, buy this book!"--Kay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast
People pleasers are not just nice people who go overboard trying to make everyone happy. Those who suffer from the Disease to Please are people who say "Yes" when they really want to say "No." For them, the uncontrollable need for the elusive approval of others is an addiction. Their debilitating fears of anger and confrontation force them to use "niceness" and "people-pleasing" as self-defense camouflage.
Featured on NBC's "Today," The Disease to Please explodes the dangerous myth that "people pleasing" is a benign problem. Best-selling author and frequent "Oprah" guest Dr. Harriet Braiker offers clear, positive, practical, and easily do-able steps toward recovery.
Begin with a simple but revealing quiz to discover what type of people-pleaser you are. Then learn how making even small changes to any single portion of the Disease to Please Triangle - involving your thoughts, feelings, and behavior - will cause a dramatic, positive and long-lasting change to the overall syndrome.
As a recovered peoplepleaser, you will finally see that a balanced way of living that takes others into consideration but puts the emphasis first on pleasing yourself and gaining your own approval is the clearest path to health and happiness.
