Emotional First Aid by Author Guy Winch, Ph.D.
“Jews and Catholics aren’t the only experts at experiencing guilt. The average person spends 2 hours a day experiencing mild guilt, 5 hours a week of moderate guilt, and 3 ½ hours a month of severe guilt. The vast majority of guilty feelings we have are about our relationships with other people. But sometimes those people attempt to add to our burden and control our decisions and behavior by giving us guilt trips,” says Guy Winch, PhD.
Winch is the author of the new book, “EMOTIONAL FIRST AID: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejections, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries” (Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group, July 2013). He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University and has a private practice in New York City. His first book, THE SQUEAKY WHEEL, has been translated into six languages.
Book Title: Emotional First Aid
Author: Guy Winch, Ph.D.
ISBN: 978-1-59643-120-7
Suggested Cover Price: $25.95 Available in August 2013
In Emotional First Aid, Guy Winch shows us the strategies he uses with patients in his own practice to help heal our psychological wounds so that we can feel better quickly & improve our lives over the long haul. Dr. Winch discusses the 7 most common psychological injuries we suffer from in daily life: Rejection, Loneliness, Loss, Guilt, Rumination, Failure and Low Self-Esteem.
My Thoughts: As someone who suffered a lot of emotional trauma as a little girl, this book definitely peaked my interest. It’s a hardcover book with 289 pages so I knew I had a lot of reading, learning & healing to do. The first chapter was my favorite chapter in the entire book as it deals with Rejection and I have always felt rejected by my father since I was 5 years old. He got remarried when I was very young and ALWAYS gave preference to my half-siblings, hence my feelings of rejection. I really learned a lot in this chapter and hopefully I can apply what I learned to help heal those still painful wounds.
The book is broken down into appropriately labeled chapters: Rejection, Loneliness, Loss, Guilt, Rumination, Failure and Low Self-Esteem…you could go right to the chapter that you feel would help you the most but I do recommend you read the entire book from start to finish.
I really learned a lot from this book and I also learned that what I am feeling is totally normal for what I went through. Dr. Winch gives you simple tips to help teach you how to recognize the pain, what caused it and what you can do to help yourself heal from it. Excellent self-help book that you should definitely pick up this Summer!
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