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Title: Fire Your Shrink!
by Michele Weiner-Davis
ISBN: 0-671-86755-5
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date: 19 January, 1995
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $22.00
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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: A great alternative approach to problem solving !
Comment: This tape offers a refreshing and effective alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic approach to personal problems.It was read by the author;this was an additional plus. I found the tapes both engaging in style and practical in application. Hearing the concepts Ms. Weiner-Davis presents helped me refocus my energy in a big way!The tapes were so helpful ,in fact, that I sought out more of Ms. Weiner-Davis's work and found them equally engaging!

Rating: 2
Summary: Quick Fix Solutions Just Aren't!
Comment: This book has an inherent appeal, I must admit. Weiner-Davis' premise, that you really can be your own best agent for postivie personal change, speaks to our individualistic pride. Well and good, we probably *have* become a nation of overly dependent emotional basket-cases.

The problem here is that Weiner-Davis swings way -- way way over -- to the other side of the pendulum. She portrays virtually all personal problems, from addiction to failing marriages, as solvable by the individual. Some of her suggestions are just absurdly overdrawn -- like her mention of the depressed person who decided to go shopping and met someone at the mall who helped her out of her depression. Just change your patterns, Weiner-Davis, suggests, and the solution will appear as if by magic.

This book might be useful for those who can stand a little more personal control over their own lives. I have nothing against that goal. What does concern me, though, is that the overly simplistic, "quick fix" mentality which prevades throughout this book can raise false hopes for people who really do need help from sources outside themselves. In these cases, "Fire Your Shrink" may be setting up certain people for a very, very hard fall after tottering briefly at a precipice of false hope.

...and no, I am NOT a psychologist or therapist of any sort... just someone who likes to see more realistic suggestions!

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