Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey E. Young & Janet S. Klosko - Paperback Self Help Psychology Book - Break Negative Lifetraps

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 exercises, and reflective writing tasks — designed to loosen the grip of these patterns and replace them with healthier habits and beliefs. First published in the United States and now available in this UK paperback edition from Scribe, the book has remained a trusted resource for both general readers and mental health professionals since its original release, prized for translating serious clinical theory — schema therapy, which Young went on to found — into warm, accessible, practical guidance. It is equally