Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control - Hardcover

Mallinger, Allan E.; De Wyze, Jeannette

 
9780517575659: Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control

Synopsis

Identifies the personality traits of an overachiever--the dread of making mistakes, the tendency to criticize, difficulty in making decisions or commitments--to help perfectionists modify their behavior. 50,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. First serial, New Woman.

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About the Author

Jeannette Dewyze is a freelance journalist. She was a staff writer for the San Diego Reader for 30 years. She cowrote Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control with Allan Mallinger, M.D.

Allan Mallinger is a practicing psychiatrist in San Diego, California, and the coauthor of Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control.

From the Inside Flap

For many of us, perfectionism can bring life's most desired rewards. But when the obsessive need for perfection and control gets in the way of our professional and emotional lives, the cost becomes too high. Although many of us appear cool and confident on the outside, inside we are in emotional turmoil, trying to satisfy everyone, attempting to direct the future, and feeling that we are failing.
In TOO PERFECT, Dr. Allan Mallinger draws on twenty years of research and observations from his private practice to show how perfectionism can sap energy, complicate even the simplest decisions, and take the enjoyment out of life. For workaholics or neat freaks, for anyone who fears change or making mistakes, needs rigid rules, is excessively frugal or obstinate, TOO PERFECT offers revealing self-tests, fascinating case histories, and practical strategies to help us overcome obsessiveness and reclaim our right to happiness.

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9780449908006: Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control

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ISBN 10:  0449908003 ISBN 13:  9780449908006
Publisher: Fawcett, 1993
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