Bad Feelings

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Roy Schafer

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English

Other Press LLC
17 April 2006

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Clinical psychology

Bad feelings are ubiquitous to human experience. Everyone deals with grief, envy,

disappointment, dejection, humiliation, mortification, and anxiety. However, when

we consciously push troubling feelings aside and then avoid them, we should be under

no illusions that such repression empowers us to lead untroubled lives. The price

that we pay, simply, is feeling less alive.

Our attempts to avoid feeling pain manifest

themselves in feelings of disconnection and numbness. To make matters worse, bad

feelings often bring moralistic self-condemnation that arises unconsciously or even

consciously- ""It is bad of you to feel that way!"" ""You're being a nuisance to worry

about that!""

Many families even elevate mental health to the status of an Eleventh

Commandment. They believe that when they have negative feelings and express them,

this constitutes behavioral problems. When they begin to feel anxious, glum, or ashamed,

they are stricken with guilt or fears of punishment. Their goal is perfect adjustment,

and their taboo is the secret forbidden pleasure hidden by pain.

This book demonstrates

how psychoanalytic understanding can reduce the painfulness of negative feelings

and increase our tolerance for emotional pain. This work can enable freedom from

frightening, vengeful, and guilt-ridden fantasies, decrease reliance on passive and

masochistic ways of being, and increase our ability to take pleasure in the body,

to enjoy relations with others, the use of one's assets, and to take pride in one's

achievements. These changes outweigh the emotional pains that we inevitably suffer

by living, and they help us feel that it is worth our while to enjoy a lively existence.

By: Roy Schafer
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 252g
ISBN: 9781590512203
ISBN 10: 1590512200
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 17 April 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roy Schafer, Ph.D. Roy Schafer, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in New York City. He has written nearly a dozen books on psychoanalysis, among them the noteworthy Aspects of Internalization, A New Language for Psychoanalysis, and Language and Insight- The Sigmund Freud Lectures at University College, London. Dr. Schafer has taught and lectured all over the U.S. and abroad. He lives in New York.