The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome PDF Free Download

I had the privilege and pleasure of knowing Dr. Harriet Braiker for more than 25 years. She and I were graduate students together at UCLA and remained close friends until her death. She was one of the smartest and most intuitive people I have ever known. The Disease to Please incorporates Dr. Braiker’s remarkable ability to combine a first–class analytic mind—one made further so by her training in social and clinical psychology—with her tremendous insight into the relationships that make us human. Harriet understood the possibilities and limitations of human nature, observed with clarity how people interact with one another and what motivates us to continue in patterns of behavior that are damaging rather than rewarding. Importantly, she then devised effective ways to change these behaviors and improve lives.

The Disease to Please is the distillation of Dr. Braiker’s deep knowledge of psychology and the understandings she gained from her many years as a psychotherapist and as an astute observer of human behavior. In this book, she describes the powerful need many people have for approval and the desire to please others that prevents them from having a full and meaningful life. She first describes the problem, with her usual straightforwardness and lucidity, and then offers specific and highly practical advice about what to do in order to achieve a balance between the demands of others and the needs for one’s own time and happiness. I highly recommend this book. You will learn things that will enrich your life.