Self-Sabotage Syndrome: Adult Children in the Workplace

by Janet Geringer Woititz

Book Overview

Adult Children are among any company's most productive and valuable employees--dedicated, conscientious, capable and eager to please. But if you are an Adult Child and have answered yes to most of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558740503
• ISBN13: 9781558740501
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Health Communications
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

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Este libro lo compre como sugerencia de una persona de ALANON Hijos adultos de alcoholicos. Como hija de un alcoholico pasivo, vivi en negacion 30 anios de mi vida siempre con el estigma de ser la "inadecuada". Al leer este libro me di cuenta de todas las caracteristicas que vivi en mi hogar y sobre todo como la mayor parte de mi vida sabotie por ignorancia mi forma de vida. A pesar de que Espanol es mi primer idioma, este libro es super facil de leer y comprender. A este libro no le falta nada.

The Self-Sabotage Syndrome

From the moment I started to read this book, I was 'smacked in the face' by the relevence of this book in my life at this "exact juncture" !.I have just lost a job that I "loved", it was my "home away from home" (I actually used to say that...); my boss was my "best friend", I would do virtually ANYTHING to support and help him in the work place and in his failing personal life. I was terminated because his wife felt we were "too close" after two years of blind loyalty. Terminated ! No notice ! No severance ! Lost my job, my best friend, my source of income, my entire world/life.READ THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE AN ADULT CHILD !!! I wish I had read it before. I will not be the 'enabler' and the 'fall guy' the next time. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is an ADULT CHILD and find themselves without a job/sense of self/reason to live/purpose in life because the "job" and "your life" ARE NOT intertwined unless you allow them to be. I did not establish correct "boundries", and coincidentally, my previous "boss/best-friend" is an Adult Child also.I just ordered the book to be delivered to my previous boss/best friend. Hopefully he will learn from this book as well, and not follow the same patterns.

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO WORK-RELATED PROBLEMS

If you have been losing jobs despite working "very hard", and you are an ACoA, this is the book that will finally answer the big question of "why! " ACoA's, as explained succinctly yet in detail by Woititz, have ingrained patterns of behavior that result in problems on the job. We can identify these patterns, come to understand where they came from, and finally, do something to change them! This book gave me far more insight than years of counseling - Woititz truly knows the ACoA!