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Psychology General

Achieving Inner Balance in Anxious Times

by (author) Barbara Killinger

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2011
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773538443
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $28.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773586291
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

Clinical psychologist Dr Barbara Killinger offers insights and a variety of techniques that she developed in working with her clients over the years. Through their stories, she illustrates the dynamics of workaholism, showing how it produces profound personality changes, negatively affects family interactions, and reduces effectiveness at work. She explains the dynamics of how workaholism can result in the loss of personal and professional integrity, and why ambitious, perfectionistic people typically become obsessive and increasingly narcissistic.

Achieving Inner Balance in Anxious Times shows us how to become aware of the darker side of our personalities, and how to avoid conflict and power struggles by establishing clear ego boundaries that help build mutual trust and respect in our personal and professional lives. The achievement of inner balance makes work-life balance possible.

About the author

Barbara Killinger is a clinical psychologist and the author of the international bestseller Workaholics: The Respectable Addicts, and The Balancing Act: Rediscovering Your Feelings. She lives in Toronto.

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