How to Break Out of Prison

by John Wareham

Book Overview

In this startlingly original work, Wareham shows how individuals in every walk of life become trapped in mental prisons, then he reveals precisely how to break out of prison and create the life you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566492394
• ISBN13: 9781566492393
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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Each chapter begins with a quote that makes you think before you even start digging into the chapter. The author includes so many interesting examples of both CEOs and inmates behavior, that you can't help but compare your own attitudes and actions to some, and begin to understand how these deep rooted patterns of thinking are imprisoning you from achieving what you want out of life. This is not a book to skim through; you really need to read it completely and carefully, but I highly recommend doing so. The author includes interesting historical incidents as well as his own personal experiences throughout and they are all worthwhile. The book is intelligent, entertaining and thought provoking. I highly recommend it.

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In his new book, How to Break Out of Prison, John Wareham once again shares some of his brilliant insights into the way our minds work. The book reflects how his own thinking and writing has matured over the years to the point that no home or business library should be without a copy.

Breaking Free...

This is a book that everyone who is not enjoying a truly happy and successful life should read. It takes a fascinating look at the dynamics of what makes people successful or not. The correlation between positive and negative executive behavior vs. criminal behavior is intriguing and very well developed. Wareham constantly draws on real characters and real circumstances to make his points with great wit and warmth. I doubt if there is anything out there that even begins to compare to the unique subject matter of this book.

There but for you go I!

There but for you go I! -- Life skills expert, John Wareham, has created a stark journal vividly exposing the dual desperados of deceit and venality in corporate boardrooms with the inverted and deceiving mindset of petty hustlers and criminals -- the bits and pieces of humanity that continuously stream in-and-out of our prisons and jails. The reader will discover that the caveat of Wareham's remarkable tract is immediately made clear in exposing the potentiality for solipsism and self-sabotage embodied in us all.Prisons have often been referred to as laboratories of "what is not working" in a society. Here is your chance to come the closest you'll ever come to understanding the enigmatic nature of recidivism via participating in a remarkable series of encounter groups with inmates confined in the world's largest municipal detention center, the Rikers Island Correctional Complex of the New York City Department of Correction. With a beautiful and concise depiction of the discontent often expressed in a wide variety of group therapy sessions as sick and tired of being sick and tired, Wareham offers up a profound and creative thesis of transforming a specious sense of personal autonomy into a pure sense of freedom. Everyone wants what everyone else wants: to be heard and to make a difference. Ironically, the self-elucidating nature of Wareham's journey into the heart and soul of Riker's Island becomes even more transparent in light of the spurious greed among the current cast of corporate crooks bilking our pensions and investment portfolios. In Chapter One, you will meet a classic Type-A, CEO: His haughtiness and irritation suggests a man imprisoned by the very sense of inferiority that he's so desperate to deny. Wareham's savvy insight into the ways of mice and men makes it crystal clear that the biggest prison in the world is "between your ears." Want to cease competing with childhood ghosts? Want to eradicate the illusion of separateness from others? Want to stop participating in subliminal conspiracies of self-abnegation? There is absolutely no need to continue shadow boxing with self-made enemies. Here is your chance to achieve all of the above and more. Simply, join John Wareham, and the inmates of Rikers Island, in perfecting the art and science of How to Break Out of Prison.The book offers an on-target approach in the use of group dynamics and positive-peer interaction (PPI) in correctional inmate program services, as well as probation, parole, and community corrections (i.e. halfway houses and substance abuse centers). In fact, this book can serve as a tool kit for everyone in anchoring personal and civic identity within the increasing onslaught of the post-modern world. I highly recommend it._____________Jess Maghan...