Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

ONE: Introducing Your Inner Critic

Chapter One: What Is Your Inner Critic and Where Did It Come From?

Chapter Two: How We Talk to the Inner Critic

TWO: How the Inner Critic Operates

Chapter Three: The Critic as the Speaker of Absolute Truth

Chapter Four: The Critic’s View of the Physical Body

Chapter Five: The Wholistic Critic A Self-Improvement Expert

Chapter Six: Critic Attacks and How to Deal with Them

Chapter Seven: The Inner Critic’s Role in Shame, Depression, and Low Self-Esteem

Chapter Eight: The Critic as Abuser of the Inner Child

Chapter Nine: The Critic as Killer Disowning Our Instinctual Energy

Chapter Ten: The Differences Between the Inner Critic in Women and in Men

THREE: The Inner Critic and Relationship

Chapter Eleven: The Critic as a Relational Creature

Chapter Twelve: Growing Up in the Family Disowned Selves, Judgment, and the Development of the Inner Critic

Chapter Thirteen: The Incomparable Comparer

Chapter Fourteen: How the Inner Critic Sabotages Our Relationships

Chapter Fifteen: In Summary

FOUR: Transforming the Inner Critic

Chapter Sixteen: Understanding the Underlying Anxiety of the Inner Critic

Chapter Seventeen: Becoming a Parent to Your Inner Critic

Chapter Eighteen: Moving Toward the Creative Life The Inner Critic Transformed

APPENDIX A: Rating Your Inner Critic

APPENDIX B: The Top Twelve Traits of the Inner Critic

APPENDIX C: The Critic Transformed

APPENDIX D: A Brief Description of the Voice Dialogue Process

APPENDIX E: In a More Humorous Vein

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