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Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
Written by Charles L. Whitfield, MD
Narrated by Jonathan Yen
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About this audiobook
More than personal boundaries, this book is really about relationships-healthy and unhealthy ones. Here bestselling author and psychotherapist Charles Whitfield blends theories and dynamics from several disciplines into practical knowledge and actions that your can use in your relationships right now.
This comprehensive book opens with clear definitions and descriptions of boundaries, a self-assessment survey, and a history of our accumulated knowledge. Going deeper, it describes the ten essential areas of human interaction wherein you can improve your relationships. These include age regression, giving and receiving (projection and projective identification), triangles, core recovery issues, basic dynamics, unfinished business, and spirituality. It shows in countless practical ways how knowledge of each of these is most useful in your recovery and everyday life.
This comprehensive book opens with clear definitions and descriptions of boundaries, a self-assessment survey, and a history of our accumulated knowledge. Going deeper, it describes the ten essential areas of human interaction wherein you can improve your relationships. These include age regression, giving and receiving (projection and projective identification), triangles, core recovery issues, basic dynamics, unfinished business, and spirituality. It shows in countless practical ways how knowledge of each of these is most useful in your recovery and everyday life.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book should be required reading. I have read other books on boundaries but this one has helped the most.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic listen and such helpful insightful advice, really good.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent book of substance. Very important to understand the dynamics involved in the boundaries with other humans. Verbose and repetitive at times and a reader that does not help with its slightly presumptuous tone, it could do with a bit more lightness. Still, it is a good foundation if one wants to understand boundaries.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was pretty insightful but would be a lot more useful with the downloadable documents alongside (which I didn't download).
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I found this book to be really easy to understand and integrate as truth. A topic like codependency and boundaries can include a lot of information that although validating may not actually be applicable. I found this book’s material to be both straightforward and helpful.