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Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception by Twerski, Abraham J.

Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception Twerski, Abraham J. ebook
ISBN: 0585370516, 9780585370514
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
Page: 152
Format: pdf

According to Hanson, the addict's struggle is at bottom a battle against self deception. And just as often the real reason for my blind acceptance of certain facts and conclusions was to push my confirmation bias endorphin triggers again and again, as all severely addicted drug addicts are compelled to do. For instance, anyone who responded to the statement, “I can't think of anyone I hate deeply,” received a point if they emphatically agreed with the statement by responding with a 6 or a 7. €�The more points a participant received, and denial of one's darker impulses. Product DescriptionAA veterans often refer to stinking thinking--the distorted thought processes behind addictive and codependent behavior. To understand how we are deceived is one thing, but to guard against it is another. Understanding self-deception, self-sabotage, and more. (Hazelden Foundation, 1990); Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-deception, with forward by John Wallace (Harper & Row, 1990; 2nd Ed. The science of self-deception shows the most people think that they are actually smarter, more charismatic, and less susceptible to bias or improper corrupt than everyone else around them. We often do not know when we are being deceived. If they find it frightening to think and painful to change, this is in large part because thinking and changing represent major threats to the beliefs that make up their sense of self. And boy oh boy do The soothing self deception that we are stoic free thinking individuals, our psychological Achilles Heel if you will, is repeatedly and successfully leveraged against us by those who wish to manipulate and control. Rationalization is the use of feeble but . Where addiction is concerned, the key selves involved are the addict self (AS) and what he calls the "reasonable self" (RS). €�Participants who scored higher on a self-deception questionnaire laughed less, and reported less enjoyment, in response to a stand-up comedian than those who scored lower,” Lynch and Trivers report. In his book Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception, Abraham J. In this new series I shall be examining some of the most important methods of self-deception, starting today with the ego defence of rationalization. That is the nature of deception. Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception by Abraham Twerski.