Martin M. Antony
Auteur van When Perfect Isn't Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism
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Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven, Step-by-Step Techniques for Overcoming your Fear (2008) 142 exemplaren
10 Simple Solutions to Shyness: How to Overcome Shyness, Social Anxiety, and Fear of Public Speaking (The New Harbinger… (2004) 49 exemplaren
The Anti-Anxiety Workbook: Proven Strategies to Overcome Worry, Phobias, Panic, and Obsessions (The Guilford Self-Help… (2008) 32 exemplaren
10 Simple Solutions to Panic: How to Overcome Panic Attacks, Calm Physical Symptoms, & Reclaim Your Life (2004) 21 exemplaren
Overcoming Medical Phobias: How to Conquer Fear of Blood, Needles, Doctors, and Dentists (2006) 14 exemplaren
Overcoming Animal & Insect Phobias: How To Conquer Fear Of Dogs, Snakes, Rodents, Bees, Spiders & More (2005) 14 exemplaren
Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety (AABT Clinical Assessment) (AABT Clinical Assessment… (2001) 11 exemplaren
Overcoming fear of heights how to conquer acrophobia & live a life without limits (2007) 6 exemplaren
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- professor (psychology, Ryerson University)
director of research (Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre, St. Joseph's Healthcare) - Organisaties
- Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre (St. Joseph's Healthcare) (director)
Ryerson University
Canadian Psychological Association (president)
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“Ted feels like he needs to spend many hours a day reading books to meet his self-help goals. When his family invites him downstairs to watch baseball, he stays upstairs instead to read about how to build family relationships and avoid perfectionism.”
Just kidding.
Great book.
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What a paradox that we can be excessively conscientious.
Even the most loose person probably feels bad about it and says, ‘But I don’t want my kid to be like me; I want them to do the right thing.’ “The right thing” meaning, selling yourself to conscientiousness. Although in other situations it’s clear to everyone else except the person caught in this behavior that to be rigidly churched or Victorian is a small box without any slits for air.
In the end: if you can’t forgive anything, if you’re too proud for that, do you call that life?
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When I got the book, I was like: perfectionism is Just Bad and I want done with it. Now I see that that is itself perfectionistic. We must try to balance between wanting reasonable standards and not wanting unreasonable ones.… (meer)