TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Preface

Emotional Processing: Basic Considerations

Chapter 1 Know Your Goals

Chapter 2 Observe Yourself

Chapter 3 Understanding Correct Sequencing

Chapter 4 Know Your Feelings

Chapter 5 Decoding the Emotional Self

Chapter 6 Know Your Thoughts and Thought Processes

Chapter 7 Positive Thinking

Chapter 8 Know Your Defense System

Emotional Processing: Self-Attack

Chapter 9 Understanding Self-Attack

Chapter 10 Observing the Presence of Self-Attack

Chapter 11 Finding the Primary Feelings That Underlie Self-Attack

Chapter 12 Circumventing Judgment of Primary Feelings

Chapter 13 Using Our Thought Processes to Lessen Self-Attack

Chapter 14 Self-Talk

Chapter 15 Being the Center of Our Universe

Chapter 16 The Actual Self, the Idealized Self, and the Reviled Self

Chapter 17 Illusions and Self-Attack

Chapter 18 Not Knowing As a Form of Self-Attack

Chapter 19 Forgiveness and Self-Attack

Chapter 20 Anxiety and Self-Attack

Chapter 21 Triggers and Self-Attack

Chapter 22 Final Thoughts

Endnotes

Bibliography

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