Exploring the essentials of healthy personality : what is normal? /
Camay Woodall.
- xx, 346 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Realism and the struggle with self-deception -- Self-esteem and self-confidence : the bedrock of healthy personality -- Spontaneity : playing with the whole keyboard -- Work and play : the antidote to depression -- Self-comforting and self-acceptance: the legacy of parental love -- Love and sex : the eternal knot -- Food? : the frustrating goddess? -- Shame and guilt : what is really mine? -- Assertion versus aggression : the fair way to stand up for yourself -- Mutual respect, vulnerability, and the price of narcissism -- Spirituality with tolerance : our fitful goal -- Conclusion -- Index -- Acknowledgments.