The Viscott Method: A Revolutionary Program for Self-Analysis and Self-Understanding

by David Viscott

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395344298
• ISBN13: 9780395344293
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Checklist Approach To A Lifetime's Untangling

This book is almost all meat and very little fat and gristle. I have found Dr. Viscott's book immeasurably usefull since running into it in the mid-80s. I go back to it time and time again as I encounter folks along the way that just need a starting point to sort things out.

A guide to Myself.

"The Viscott method" is an adventure into the world within the reader, helping him to comprehend the forces that drive him. It helps to create a fresh perspective and achieve a new mastery of his life. The book involves an utterly unique method of Self-understanding and self-analysis that allows the reader to serve as his/her own therapist. This characteristic of the book not only attracts millions of readers who want to seek a deeper self-understanding but also patients of need of psychotherapy. It opens up one's perspective his own self. It is a guide to a more independent fulfilled and giving self. The book maintains a very personal and friendly relationship with the reader. The reader feels that he is actually involved in a warm and mutual conversation with a helpful friend whom he can rely on, confide in and obtain solutions to his problems. However, in reality this friendly person is none but the reader/patient himself. He enlists his efforts in his own cure. Various powerful tools are provided to enable the discovery of one's inner self, solution to their problems and building a happier life. For example. The tape method being the major contribution to the success of this book requires the patient to record on a tape his various emotions, feelings and expressions in order to enhance his self-analysis and understanding which he may not have thought of before. Tape 1 refers to "Who you are and how got there". (Questions regarding one's family, mother, father, home, childhood, work, life-style, responsibilities, regrets and appearance etc are to be answered. Tape 2 is the "The Feeling tape" that surveys ones current feelings like love, esteem, anger, fear, disappointments, guilt, depression and ways to deal with them. Finally tape 3 "The new life tape" seeks out to define an individual's goals and develop a plan for reaching them. It examines his wants, strengths and needs and finds out the plan that had the best chance for success. It defines the gap between the present and the future.Thus, the book enables the reader to answer questions like : · What were the forces that shaped me? · What does my voice reveal about me? · How honest am I? · How can you resolve guilt and depression ? · How can I better understand and deal with pain and anger? · What is the ultimate meaning of my life? These central questions when answered, shorten the therapeutic process, helps to achieve better self-understanding and resolve difficult personal problems that stand in the way of self-fulfillment. The book uses a very simple and comprehensive language catering to the linguistic standards of various age groups. It also includes a detailed glossary of the adjectives and expressions as defined from the author's point of view. The book is concluded with meditation exercises to guide one out of confusion, reassuring him and thereby boosting his strength.Conclusion : The book stands successful in its attempt of finding one's true center, the place from which one ac