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Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control Paperback - 1993
by Mallinger, Allan
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Mallinger insists that trading our competitive society's obsession with excellence for more realistic goals is the key to a saner, healthier life and offers obsessives hope and help to keep from being stranded in a mire of obsessive-compulsive behavior.
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- Title Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control
- Author Mallinger, Allan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1993-06-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # ANAIS-0449908003
- ISBN 9780449908006 / 0449908003
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.27 cm)
- Size 0x0x0
- Category Psychology
- Library of Congress subjects Psychology, Pathological, Perfectionism (Personality trait)
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92097328
- Dewey Decimal Code 158.1
- Quantity available 1
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This is a book about people who are too perfect for their own good.
From the jacket flap
For many of us, perfectionism can bring life's most desired rewards. But when the obsessive need for perfection and control gets in the way of our professional and emotional lives, the cost becomes too high. Although many of us appear cool and confident on the outside, inside we are in emotional turmoil, trying to satisfy everyone, attempting to direct the future, and feeling that we are failing.
In TOO PERFECT, Dr. Allan Mallinger draws on twenty years of research and observations from his private practice to show how perfectionism can sap energy, complicate even the simplest decisions, and take the enjoyment out of life. For workaholics or neat freaks, for anyone who fears change or making mistakes, needs rigid rules, is excessively frugal or obstinate, TOO PERFECT offers revealing self-tests, fascinating case histories, and practical strategies to help us overcome obsessiveness and reclaim our right to happiness.
In TOO PERFECT, Dr. Allan Mallinger draws on twenty years of research and observations from his private practice to show how perfectionism can sap energy, complicate even the simplest decisions, and take the enjoyment out of life. For workaholics or neat freaks, for anyone who fears change or making mistakes, needs rigid rules, is excessively frugal or obstinate, TOO PERFECT offers revealing self-tests, fascinating case histories, and practical strategies to help us overcome obsessiveness and reclaim our right to happiness.
