SNAP!
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Gary Small. SNAP!
SNAP! Change Your Personality in 30 Days
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1. Personality Can Change
Traits versus States
How Personality Is Formed
What Is Personality?
Big Five Personality Wheel
Personality Extremes: When Traits Become Disorders
The Slow Lane of Personality Change
New Research Turns Personality Science Upside Down
How Fast Can Change Happen?
Your Personality Impacts Your Life
When Is the Best Time to Change?
Chapter 2. Four Phases of Change
What Is CPAS?
Considering
Planning
Taking Action
Sustaining
Change Strategies That Work
Chapter 3. Assess Yourself and Define Your Goals
Defining Goals
Assessing Your Personality
Rate Your Current Personality
Your Self-Image and How Others See You
Chapter 4. Extraversion 101
Do Opposites Attract?
Ups and Downs of Extraversion and Introversion
The Introversion/Extraversion Continuum
Extraversion to the Extreme
Your Extraversion Quotient: Strategies for Dialing It Up or Down
Chapter 5. Becoming More Conscientious
The Upside of Conscientiousness
Can You Be Too Conscientious?
Conscientiousness Continuum
Strategies for Becoming More Conscientious
Chapter 6. Learning to Agree
Agreeableness Is Good for Your Mind and Body
The Downside of Too Much Agreeableness
When People Are Disagreeable
The Agreeable Brain
Tips for Becoming More Agreeable
Chapter 7. Taming Your Neurosis
Neurosis Is Not Good for Your Health
Healthy Neurotics
Multiple Paths to Emotional Stability
Neuroticism to the Extreme
Strategies for Achieving Emotional Stability
Chapter 8. Opening Up to New Experiences
The Upside of Openness
Can You Be Too Open?
What Influences Our Degree of Openness?
Strategies for Becoming More Open
Chapter 9. Fast-Tracking Your Change with Therapy
Types of Therapists
Various Psychotherapy Methods: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Overcoming Fear of Therapy
Chemistry Counts
Therapist Shopping
Your Therapy Priorities
Chapter 10. 30 Days to a Better You
Are You Ready to Change?
The Planning Phase
Match Your Goals with the Personality You Desire
Taking Action
Staying the Course for the Long Haul
Enjoying the New You
Bibliography. Preface
Chapter 1: Personality Can Change
Chapter 2: Four Phases of Change
Chapter 3: Assess Yourself and Define Your Goals
Chapter 4: Extraversion 101
Chapter 5: Becoming More Conscientious
Chapter 6: Learning to Agree
Chapter 7: Taming Your Neurosis
Chapter 8: Opening Up to New Experiences
Chapter 9: Fast-Tracking Your Change with Therapy
Chapter 10: 30 Days to a Better You
Index
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Gary Small, MD, and Gigi Vorgan
www.humanixbooks.com
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The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fifth edition) lists the following personality disorders that cause social and professional impairment:
Thankfully, less than 10 percent of the population suffers from a true personality disorder that debilitates their lives. However, the other 90 percent of us are not necessarily happy with each and every aspect of our own personalities. Many of the patients I see believe that one or more of their character traits are holding them back from reaching their professional goals, forming satisfying and supportive relationships, and remaining mentally and physically healthy. And for the longest time, there didn’t seem like much we could do about it, outside of the slow and laborious changes that can sometimes be achieved through psychoanalysis.
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