Guy Winch

The New York clinical psychologist and author of The Squeaky Wheel outlines practical steps for addressing daily emotional injuries that can adversely affect life, sharing illustrative anecdotes while offering easy-to-use, scientifically based exercises for managing painful feelings.

Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries

Emotional First Aid

Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise, and witty advice for the broken-hearted. Real heartbreak is unmistakable. We think of nothing else. We feel nothing else. We care about nothing else. Yet while we wouldn’t expect someone to return to daily activities immediately after suffering a broken limb, heartbroken people are expected to function normally in their lives, despite the emotional pain they feel. Now psychologist Guy Winch imagines how different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotion—if only we can understand how heartbreak works, we can begin to fix it. Through compelling research and new scientific studies, Winch reveals how and why heartbreak impacts our brain and our behavior in dramatic and unexpected ways, regardless of our age. Emotional pain lowers our ability to reason, to think creatively, to problem solve, and to function at our best. In How to Fix a Broken Heart he focuses on two types of emotional pain—romantic heartbreak and the heartbreak that results from the loss of a cherished pet. These experiences are both accompanied by severe grief responses, yet they are not deemed as important as, for example, a formal divorce or the loss of a close relative. As a result, we are often deprived of the recognition, support, and compassion afforded to those whose heartbreak is considered more significant. Our heart might be broken, but we do not have to break with it. Winch reveals that recovering from heartbreak always starts with a decision, a determination to move on when our mind is fighting to keep us stuck. We can take control of our lives and our minds and put ourselves on the path to healing. Winch offers a toolkit on how to handle and cope with a broken heart and how to, eventually, move on.

How to Fix a Broken Heart

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We complain about everything, often neither expecting nor getting meaningful resolutions. Wasting time and energy on unproductive complaints can take an emotional toll on our moods and well-being. Psychotherapist Guy Winch offers practical and psychologically grounded advice on how to determine what to complain about and how to convey our complaints in ways that encourage cooperation and remedies to our dissatisfactions. Whether we're dealing with a rude store clerk, a bureaucrat, a coworker, a friend or family member, complaining constructively can be empowering and can significantly strengthen our personal, familial, and work relationships.

Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships, and Enhance Self-Esteem

The Squeaky Wheel

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La paura, l’abbandono, l’insuccesso o il dolore sono un’esperienza comune nella vita di chiunque. Eppure, spesso facciamo poco o niente per riparare i danni che queste emozioni procurano. Perché? Semplicemente, perché non abbiamo gli strumenti adatti per gestirle: ci sembra eccessivo ricorrere a uno psicanalista, e insufficiente parlarne a un amico. Così accade che trascuriamo le nostre ferite psicologiche perché pensiamo che non esistano rimedi semplici, rapidi ed efficaci per guarirle.Ma non è così: ognuno di noi può imparare facilmente tecniche e interventi di primo soccorso emotivo, accelerando la «guarigione» dalle proprie ferite e prevenendo l’arrivo di quelle future.Ricco di suggerimenti pratici, il volume affronta le principali e più diffuse emozioni dolorose, descrivendo sintomi, rimedi e terapie per: • rifiuto• solitudine• perdite e traumi• senso di colpa• insuccesso• bassa autostima.Tutte le tecniche proposte si ispirano alla mindfulness - l’approccio che consente di sviluppare la flessibilità mentale e aumentare l’autoconsapevolezza - e costituiscono un kit essenziale di primo soccorso emotivo da tenere sempre a portata di mano.

Pronto intervento emozioni. Strategie di mindfulness per affrontare con serenità le difficoltà della vita

Behandeln Sie kleine emotionale Verletzungen, bevor sie zu großen Wunden werden. Auf ein aufgeschlagenes Knie kleben wir ein Pflaster. Was aber unternehmen wir, um die seelischen Verletzungen zu behandeln, die wir im Alltag erleiden? Oft fehlen uns dafür wirksame Mittel. Gleich zum Therapeuten zu gehen ist nicht immer sinnvoll, denn viele seelische Verletzungen sind nicht so schwer, dass sie professionelle Hilfe erfordern. Vergleichbar einem Medizinschränkchen mit Verbandszeug, Salben und Schmerzmitteln für die Grundversorgung körperlicher Alltagsverletzungen möchte dieses Buch eine Hausapotheke für die kleineren seelischen Verletzungen sein, die wir uns im täglichen Leben holen. Guy Winch führt Sie Schritt für Schritt in die Behandlung der häufigsten psychischen Verwundungen ein: Zurückweisung, Einsamkeit, Verlust, Schuldgefühle, Grübeln, Scheitern und ein geringes Selbstwertgefühl – hier lernen Sie, wie Sie mit emotionalen Wunden wirksam umgehen und so zu mehr Resilienz und Selbstvertrauen finden. »So sollte Selbsthilfe sein – effektiv und heilsam. In Emotionale Erste Hilfe findet jeder Techniken zur Selbstfürsorge für die eigene seelische Hausapotheke.« – Meg Selig, Psychology Today

Wie wir mit seelischen Verwundungen im Alltag umgehen können

Emotionale Erste Hilfe

„Az igazi szívfájdalom összetéveszthetetlen – semmi nem tud ilyen heves kínokat okozni, és képes ennyire átvenni az uralmat a testünk és az elménk fölött. Ilyenkor nem tudunk másra gondolni. Semmilyen más érzelemnek nem jut már hely. Semmi más nem érdekel minket.” Mindenki megérti, hogy rendkívül nehéz túljutnunk egy közeli hozzátartozónk halálán vagy a válásunkon. Ám ha amiatt törik össze a szívünk, mert szakított velünk a szerelmünk, vagy elhunyt a kedvenc háziállatunk, már korántsem olyan elfogadó a társadalom. Guy Winch pszichológus nemcsak segít megértenünk, milyen módon hat ránk testileg és lelkileg a szívfájdalom, hanem konkrét módszerekkel is szolgál, amelyek révén hatékonyabban dolgozhatjuk fel a minket ért veszteséget. Könyve útmutató a továbblépéshez, mert Winch azt vallja: lehet, hogy a szívünk összetörik néha, de nekünk nem kell megtörnünk.

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