When Misery Is Company: Ending Self-Sabotage and Misery Addiction

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Summary: This is a groundbreaking book
Review: Anne Katherine has added to an already impressive series of books with When Misery is Company. The idea that there is an umbrella disorder that encompasses many others is thrilling. She presents her material in clear, gripping language. I couldn't stop reading, as the ideas drew a picture that explains why so many people cannot stop leading miserable lives. I'm a therapist and I think this book will be of immense help to both therapists and clients alike.

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Summary: Clear, Fresh, & Insightful
Review: I first encountered Anne Katherine's writing when I took a continuing education course about setting boundaries. I am continually impressed with her clear and unique insights. She is able to see and UNDERSTAND humans and human interaction in an exceptionally clear way. In this book, she communicates what so many of us have been unable to express and overcome within ourselves. The dynamics of self-sabotage and self-created misery are finally understood and explained in a whole and empowering way. She teaches and shows the way past a painful, self-defeating life.

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Summary: perceptive concept
Review: It never occurred to me before that someone can be addicted to feeling miserable and sabotage their own efforts and/or another person's efforts to help them succeed and enjoy life, but it is true!
I found this book insightful and clear and eye opening. The concept of misery addiction was new to me, but as I read the book, it made perfect sense. I actually worked with a person who was addicted to misery and her behavior made no sense to me at the time. She was self defeating and I did not understand why. Now I understand her issues and thinking patterns much more clearly. Now her actions and reactions make perfect sense to me.
"When Misery is Company" is a great tool for someone who is actually addicted to misery, but it can also clarify and enlighten people who know or work with those who have this addiction. I recommend it highly.

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Summary: An extraordinary book of cause and treatment ...
Review: This book gives birth to new hope and help to myriad thousands whose continued sabotage of self is the harbinger of doom that leaves their lives steeped in misery.

Anne Katherine, gifted psychotherapist and author, identifies two primary components that exist in the conundrum of this insidious condition. The mind of the child's maladaptive response to repeated painful stimuli and the brain's biochemical adjustment to stop pleasure or success before it can become pain. The child's jitterbug of emotions eventually imprisons its owner in the addiction to misery.

This author identifies this enigmatic problem and the healing solution in this prodigious book. It is another revelation of how important community is in the healing process.