Compulsive Helping - Softcover

Lefever, Robert

 
9781871013221: Compulsive Helping

Synopsis

Compulsive helping is the need to be needed, the devotion to help other people, irrespective of whether the help was actually successful, needed and appreciated, and also irrespective of the damage caused to the helper through burnout and the other consequences of taking a good thing too far. Doctors, teachers, social workers, politicians and many other professionals can become a menace when compulsive helping becomes damaging to others and to themselves.

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