Product InfoDo you worry about what people think of you? Do you sometimes feel everyone else is more confident and more successful than you are? Do you wish you could forget about judging yourself all the time and get on with your life?

Dr Hauck understands that many people suffer from low self-esteem, and find it difficult to believe in themselves - to believe they deserve respect and consideration. But you can change, and learn to accept yourself as you are, without relying on other people's opinions. Then you'll find you have new energy to be the person you want to be, without the feelings of failure, embarrassment and anxiety that were holding you back.

Hold your head up high, and you will be calm, confident and assertive, whatever happens to you.

ContentsContents:

• Foreword by Albert Ellis, PhD
• Introduction

• How to recognize low self-esteem
• How bad is this problem?
• The first step: Never rate yourself or others
• The second step: Develop performance confidence
• The third step: Make people respect you
• What can you do?

Extra Info

Introduction

This is my fourteenth book on the subject of self-help psychology based on the principles of cognitive-behavioural therapy with particular emphasis on the best variety of that type of therapy called rational-emotive therapy (RET). The subjects covered in my past works have been the common emotional disturbances: depression, anger, fear, jealousy and excessive passivity. I have also shown how RET applies to the rearing of children, to love and marriage, and to assertiveness.

These volumes constitute a wealth of information on those psychological facts which practically all of us need to live harmoniously our everyday lives. They have been a labour of love spread over the past twenty-five years. I have been told that there is some repetition of material from one book to the next. I agree. But that is unavoidable. What I have done is to show how the principles of RET and cognitive-behavioural therapy apply to specific emotional conditions. When I wrote about self-discipline I called upon some principles of RET which I had also used to describe excessive passivity. And that is how I have progressed from book to book, always focusing on a new subject but always within the framework of RET.

For many months after my last book I felt I had said all I ever wanted to say about common emotional disorders. However, it slowly began to dawn on me that another volume was called for, one which was of great importance and which had not been written before for the layman by any cognitive- behaviourist I knew of.

This is that book. It addresses the extremely important subject of the inferiority complex and how it is shaped. Now that I am immersed in the subject, I wonder why I waited until now to write it. Perhaps I have unconsciously kept the most important for the last.

As usual, before I began this book I had only an incomplete idea of how RET explains low self-esteem. Once I began the outline and the writing, the pieces began to fall nicely into place and I am now convinced after many clinical observations, and a few chats with Dr Albert Ellis, that my thoughts about inferiority feelings are basically correct.

That makes me feel very content. It's like tying a ribbon around a Christmas present.

About the author:
Dr Paul Hauck, PhD, is a full-time clinical psychologist in Rock Island, Illinois, USA. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and has lectured widely on various aspects of psychology. He has written many articles for professional journals, and is the author of the following books - Calm Down, Jealousy, How to Stand up for Yourself, How to Love and Be Loved, Depression, How to Be Your Own Best Friend and How to Cope With People Who Drive You Crazy - all published by Sheldon Press.