- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Jan 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671867555
- ISBN-13: 978-0671867553
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,264,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Quick Fix Solutions Just Aren't!
26 Nov 1998
Format:Audio Cassette
This book has an inherent appeal, I must admit. Weiner-Davis' premise, that you really can be your own best agent for postivie personal change, speaks to our individualistic pride. Well and good, we probably *have* become a nation of overly dependent emotional basket-cases.
The problem here is that Weiner-Davis swings way -- way way over -- to the other side of the pendulum. She portrays virtually all personal problems, from addiction to failing marriages, as solvable by the individual. Some of her suggestions are just absurdly overdrawn -- like her mention of the depressed person who decided to go shopping and met someone at the mall who helped her out of her depression. Just change your patterns, Weiner-Davis, suggests, and the solution will appear as if by magic.
This book might be useful for those who can stand a little more personal control over their own lives. I have nothing against that goal. What does concern me, though, is that the overly simplistic, "quick fix" mentality which prevades throughout this book can raise false hopes for people who really do need help from sources outside themselves. In these cases, "Fire Your Shrink" may be setting up certain people for a very, very hard fall after tottering briefly at a precipice of false hope.
...and no, I am NOT a psychologist or therapist of any sort... just someone who likes to see more realistic suggestions!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
commerical too long
3 July 2006
Format:Audio Cassette
I also have Michelle's book for getting your man to do what you want. This audiocassette had most of the same things in it - 'cept it wasn't geared toward just changing men.
I like her ideas and have used a few of them myself successfully. However, the beginning of this audiocassette is WAY too long. It's basically a commercial for her method of helping people - which sounds great - but I didn't buy this book-on-tape to hear a commercial! I wanted her to get to the point and tell me how to do this stuff.
I suggest saving your money and not buying the audiocassette since you will have to listen again and again to the commercial. Having the book is better because you can flip thru to just the information you want/need at the time.
The book has a 'commercial' in the beginning too, but you don't have to read that part any more than just the first time. With an audiocassette, if you want to listen to the ideas again, you have to listen to the commercial again.
Books-on-tape are GREAT, but in this case, she takes too long to get to the point. The book with pages to flip thru is much better.
I like her ideas and have used a few of them myself successfully. However, the beginning of this audiocassette is WAY too long. It's basically a commercial for her method of helping people - which sounds great - but I didn't buy this book-on-tape to hear a commercial! I wanted her to get to the point and tell me how to do this stuff.
I suggest saving your money and not buying the audiocassette since you will have to listen again and again to the commercial. Having the book is better because you can flip thru to just the information you want/need at the time.
The book has a 'commercial' in the beginning too, but you don't have to read that part any more than just the first time. With an audiocassette, if you want to listen to the ideas again, you have to listen to the commercial again.
Books-on-tape are GREAT, but in this case, she takes too long to get to the point. The book with pages to flip thru is much better.
7 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A great alternative approach to problem solving !
13 May 1999
Format:Audio Cassette
This tape offers a refreshing and effective alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic approach to personal problems.It was read by the author;this was an additional plus. I found the tapes both engaging in style and practical in application. Hearing the concepts Ms. Weiner-Davis presents helped me refocus my energy in a big way!The tapes were so helpful ,in fact, that I sought out more of Ms. Weiner-Davis's work and found them equally engaging!
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