Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey E. Young and Janet S. Klosko - Self Help - Paperback

Details. Condition: Brand New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781912854356. Publisher: Scribe Publications. Age Range: Adult (Self Help / Psychology). Overview. Reinventing Your Life is the bestselling self-help classic from psychologists Jeffrey E. Young and Janet S. Klosko, offering a compassionate, evidence-based programme to break free of the destructive patterns — or "lifetraps" — that keep people stuck in unhappy relationships, careers, and self-image. Grounded in cognitive therapy and refined over decades of clinical practice, this paperback edition gives readers a clear, practical route to lasting emotional change without medication or years of traditional therapy.. About the Book. Do you put others' needs above your own, panic when someone you love pulls away, or feel a persistent sense of failure no matter what you achieve? Young and Klosko call these recurring, self-defeating patterns "lifetraps," and in Reinventing Your Life they identify eleven of the most common: abandonment, mistrust, dependence, vulnerability, emotional deprivation, social exclusion, defectiveness, failure, subjugation, unrelenting standards, and entitlement. Each chapter opens with a diagnostic questionnaire so readers can identify which lifetraps apply to them, followed by real-world case studies drawn from decades of clinical work at the Cognitive Therapy Center of New York. From there, the authors set out a structured, step-by-step programme — combining cognitive techniques, behavioural exercis...