Publisher's Synopsis
Make sense of the irrational and resistant behaviors you developed in childhood that helped you then, but that now persist as blockages preventing you from reaching your full potential. Dr. Oliker explains how to recognize and break free of the adaptive responses (survival systems) that continue to operate, silently and unseen, and that block you from reaching your inherent potential. Fascinating case histories, theoretical approaches, and the findings of various research inquiries that offer the reader a broad understanding of the meaning and power of a survival system and proven ways to break free of the hidden survival systems in their own lives. Relatable, captivating case histories and exemplars based on well-known fairy tales make survival-systems theory easy to identify and understand. Author offers workable methods for breaking free of archaic survival systems in the readers' own lives.
