Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life by Harper Paperbacks Title: Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life

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Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life by Harper Paperbacks

half and half

helped me quite a bit, but like anything i didn't agree with all or did not apply. still well worth the read and bunch of my friends want to borrow it, seeing the difference it made in me.
Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life by Harper Paperbacks

Ever the Opportunist

There's really not a whole lot "wrong" with YEZ, and it's written so pretty much any high school dropout can grasp it, BUT... Wayne is not the guy who invented cognitive therapy. Wayne was then pretty much what he is now: a repackager.

YEZ hit the bookshelves in '77 a year after Aaron Beck changed the entire direction of psychotherapy (for the better) with his seminal Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders. Beck was himself a bit of scaffolder, as he bagged many of his ideas from Albert Ellis, who wrote Rational Therapy in '58, and many other fine books.

(Ellis developed Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, which was -very- hot in the '80s, and which built much of the skills base that made Cognitive Behavioral Therapy THE big deal in the '90s.)

Therapists looking to make sense out what they're doing to more resistant clients may do well to turn them on to Dyer, but they might do better to hip them to Ellis's and Beck's own lay-readership work.
Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life by Harper Paperbacks

Nice Book

I recommend this book for everyone who needs to improve his daily quality of life. It's very helpfull.
Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life by Harper Paperbacks

Don't Buy Books Like This One

I have actually been through a long period of spiritual chaos. I have owned this book in the past. I also owned many other books that are of this kind. I thought that this book would be helpful because it was written by a psychologist. This book is actually useless. The best thing to do in times of turmoil is to keep things SIMPLY. That is the best solution. Think in a positive way but not to the extreme end that is advocated in all these self improvement books which are actually self DESTRUCTION books.
For those who question my opinion, I have been severely depressed for over 6 years. I stop being depressed back in 2003. I am currently a psychology major. REAL psychology books are VERY different from these SHAM books.
I hope my review have helped someone. If you have books like this, you should throw them away.

Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life by Harper Paperbacks

The Tape Broke Half-Way Thru...Waiting for a Replacement

I played one side, turned the tape over and nothing happened...took it out and saw that the tape had snapped inside the casing, where it was impossible to reach it to tape it together..(you older folks know what I mean...before CD's..) It had come loose at the reel.
Anyway, I'm posting this as I await a new one...sent it back to KY, from whence it was sent to me.
I'll re-do the review, after I get the new one to finish listening to...bummer! (Not to complain so much, as it's my lst dud, from the time Amazon opened it's "doors" so to speak...not a bad record)
Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life by Harper Paperbacks

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From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Pulling Your Own Strings, positive and practical advice for breaking free from the trap of negative thinking and enjoying life to the fullest.
  • If you're plagued by guilt or worry and find yourself unwittingly falling into the same old self-destructive patterns, then you have "erroneous zones"--whole facets of your approach to life that act as barriers to your success and happiness.
  • If you believe that you have no control over your feelings and reactions, you give up the many choices that are available to you. Dyer shows how you can take charge of yourself and manage how much you will let difficult times--and people--affect you.
  • If you spend more time worrying what others think than working on what you want and need, you will always be disappointed. Dyer shows that only you can make yourself happy and points the way to true self-reliance.
  • If you are still caught up in old labels for yourself and an out-of-date self-image, you cancel out your present potential. Dyer shows how you can break out of the patterns of the post to become fulfilled in the present.
  • If you depend upon others for your well-being, you lose yourself. Dyer shows how to take control of your own needs and learn to give and receive love without limits.