If you liked When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, you will love  Here Be Dragons, with the skills in "Guilty" applied to all  sorts of problems each of us face in life.    Dr. Smith's first book, When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, is an  acclaimed national and world bestseller with over five million copies  printed in fifteen languages.  In creating techniques used in "Guilty"  to teach people to assertively respond to threatening critique of  their wants by others who emotionally manipulate them, Dr. Smith  developed the best known, simple and systematic methods for dealing  behaviorally with abstract anxiety concerns, such as guilt, self-worth  and self-respect, which also form the fundamental emotional crux of  the problems people bring into traditional talk psychotherapy.  This  is analogous to finding out that aspirin. developed to ease  toothaches, can also be used to treat coronary disease.    From his years of experience observing and evaluating patients in  the field, having problems ranging from the mildest to the most severe  and violent disorders, then involuntarily hospitalizing people when  necessary, as well as treating psychological problems in the  psychotherapy office suite, Dr. Smith clarifies and simplifies the  traditional viewpoint by which psychological difficulties people  undergo are looked at.  Besides the physical, organic, and psychotic  disorders, which are rarely seen in the practice of traditional talk  psychotherapy, the vast majority of problems people bring into the  psychotherapy office can be seen and succesfully treated as an  unresolved abstract anxiety-phobic response in disguise involving  self-worth, self-respect and guilt.  They are basically unresolved  emotional psychological problems associated with significant changes  in five psychological stages of life; parent-child maturation,  school-career, courting-relationship, sociosexual-marriage,  aging-loss.    Within this framework, Dr. Smith defines the five steps in the  development of the psychological problem for use in both understanding  the etiology of the problem as well as its diagnosis. Then he uses the  analogy of the Here Be Dragons coping model - the Medieval warning of  an unknown but perceived anxiety threat - as a simple learning device  to understand and recognize the basic automatic, primitive, and  childish coping reactions inherited from our animal ancestors, i.e.,  "Remove The Dragon" or "Remove Yourself From The Dragon" which can  turn a fixable problem of living into a chronic psychological one.  This maladaptive coping is compared to the more psychologically adult  coping responses of "Defang The Dragon" and "Learning To Live With  Dragons," or being able to cope with all the negatives and unknown  anxieties life inflicts upon us.  Either in the self-help mode or in  traditional talk psychotherapy, the methods in Here Be Dragons The  Psychological Problem, Cause And Cure are designed to help the person  with the problem resolve it, as well as prevent others from occurring  through poor coping with life's presentations to us of an inexorable  series of "Dragons" threatening our self-worth and self-respect.

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