Product Description

This book is about empowerment. It is about fulfilling your needs, dreams, and aspirations without being trapped by feelings that society has taught you to ignore.

If you:

• Fear that expressing your feelings will upset others
  
• Allow others to decide what's best for you
  
• Are not quite happy and not sure why
  
• Take better care of the needs of others than your own
• Believe that showing your anger is bad....
  then stop denying your feelings! Dr. Frankel encourages women to trust their feelings and insticts and examine ways of regaining control of their emotions and lives.

Expore how finding and defining your anger can help you lose your depression and overcome the feelings of denial that serve as obstacles to personal empowerment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #305370 in Books
• Published on: 1991-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781558741614
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D. is a licensed marriage, family, and child counselor with a private practice devoted to the unique concerns of women in transition and crisis.

Customer Reviews

Women, Anger & Depression
This book was wonderful to read. The chapters are short enough for someone who is suffering from depression and has difficulty concentrating to stay focused. Lois Frankel speaks directly to the women in our society. The book is in part a workbook, making the experience of reading it more personal. This book gave me a lot to think about, helped me gain insight to problems I did not give credit to before, and gave me much to talk about in subsequent therapy sessions. Truly a two thumbs up! I recommend it to all women who are dealing with symptoms of depression.

Good, easy book, nice exercises
The best thing about this book, in my opinion, is that Dr. Frankel includes exercises along the way to get the readers to think about their depression and their anger, their causes, and how they can get in touch with their anger and express it appropriately. I generally agree with her premise--that women have been taught not to show their anger, to stuff their feelings, to accept the "glass ceiling," and all these stuffed emotions can lead to depression. But I think she fails to see the chemical component of depression. Why do some women deal with these issues and not get depressed, and some do? Still, medication alone doesn't "cure" depression, any more than therapy alone, and certainly giving women permission to express their anger will help them deal with their depression. After all, what is depression but anger turned inward?

This book helped me when nothing else did
I'm a psych nurse, and this is a wonderful book that a great therapist I know always recommends to her patients.

She makes them read it OUT LOUD - slowly.

I respect her a whole lot, so when I was going through a painful divorce, and was about to lose it, I got the book.
I read it in the bathroom OUT LOUD, SLOWLY while the water was running so no one would hear me. (I never get any time alone!) I think it really helped me a lot.

Although I had never realized it, I had extreme feelings of powerlessness and anger that I carried over from childhood that this book helped me uncover and deal with.

While some of the situations in the book didn't SEEM to apply to my situation, the FEELINGS and the ways that a woman has of dealing with them in our society did.

It is not a thick book. If you buy it for yourself because you really NEED some help - seriously - try reading it OUT LOUD to yourself slowly. Also, make sure you do the exercises.