Chained to the Desk (Third Edition): A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Chained to the Desk (Third Edition) by Bryan E. Robinson Provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Draws on hundreds of case studies to provide a step by step guide to spot workaholism, understand it, and recoverAmericans love a hard worker. The worker who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and ultimately to physical and mental collapse. Intended for anyone touched by what Robinson calls "the best-dressed problem of the twenty-first century," Chained to the Desk provides an inside look at workaholisms impact on those who live and work with work addicts—partners, spouses, children, and colleagues—as well as the appropriate techniques for clinicians who treat them. Originally published in 1998, this groundbreaking book from best-selling author and widely respected family therapist Bryan E. Robinson was the first comprehensive portrait of the workaholic. In this new and fully updated third edition, Robinson draws on hundreds of case reports from his own original research and years of clinical practice. The agonies of workaholism have grown all the more challenging in a world where the computer, cell phone, and iPhone allow twenty-four-hour access to the office, even on weekends and from vacation spots. Adult children of workaholics describe their childhood pain and the lifelong legacies they still carry, and the spouses or partners of workaholics reveal the isolation and loneliness of their vacant relationships. Employers and business colleagues discuss the cost to the company when workaholism dominates the workplace. Chained to the Desk both counsels and consoles. It provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover. Author Biography Bryan E. Robinson is Founder and Chief Architect Officer of Comfort Zones Digital, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a psychotherapist in private practice. He writes for Forbes.com and Thrive Global and is the author of over forty books, including three editions of Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them and #Chill: Turn Off Your Job and Turn on Your Life. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Glorification of an Illness Part I: Work Addiction: The New American Idol 1 Who, Me? A Workaholic - Seriously? 2 How to Spot Work Addiction 3 When Work Addiction Hits Home 4 Inside Your Workaholic Mind 5 Childhood and the Making of a Workaholic 6 Spouses and Partners of Workaholics 7 Children of Workaholics 8 Risky Business: Work Addiction in the Company Part II: Recovery from Work Addiction 9 Your Workaholic Brain 10 Mindful Working 11 Your Work Resilient Zone: Finding Your Positive, Compassionate Self 12 Work-Life Balance and Workaholics Anonymous Appendix Notes Index About the Author Review "Reorganized for easy reading, updated to include advances in both neuroscience and psychotherapy... The one constant in this edition is the amazing depth of understanding weve come to expect from Robinson on the topic of work addiction and his wonderful examples to pass that understanding along to the readers."-Gayle Porter,Professor of Management, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey"This is a comprehensive and highly impressive book that helps workaholics understand and change their behaviors. It presents cutting edge research that reinforces the exercises in the book, and is a great read for both workaholics and the clinicians that treat them."-Dr. Kristin Neff,author of Self-Compassion: How to Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind"Bryan Robinson was way ahead of the times in describing what has now undeniably become the disease of our times. Chained to the Desk provides a rich, comprehensive understanding of how workaholism often mistaken for productivity and fueled more than ever by technology is taking an insidious toll on our lives, individually and collectively. Robinsons findings and compelling stories have been reverberating in my mind now for weeks."-Tony Schwartz,author of Be Excellent at Anything "Robinson manages to cut to the heart of so many of todays problems and offers practical suggestions for those of us who have suffered from work addiction. A sober voice in a work-delirious culture. This new breakthrough edition shines the spotlight on the latest neuro-imaging techniques, brain science, and mindfulness practices and their implications for recovering workaholics in finding their resilient zone." -Dr. Patricia Love,author of How to Improve Your Marriage without Talking about It Promotional Provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover. Long Description Draws on hundreds of case studies to provide a step by step guide to spot workaholism, understand it, and recover Americans love a hard worker. The worker who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and ultimately to physical and mental collapse. Intended for anyone touched by what Robinson calls "the best-dressed problem of the twenty-first century," Chained to the Desk provides an inside look at workaholisms impact on those who live and work with work addicts-partners, spouses, children, and colleagues-as well as the appropriate techniques for clinicians who treat them. Originally published in 1998, this groundbreaking book from best-selling author and widely respected family therapist Bryan E. Robinson was the first comprehensive portrait of the workaholic. In this new and fully updated third edition, Robinson draws on hundreds of case reports from his own original research and years of clinical practice. The agonies of workaholism have grown all the more challenging in a world where the computer, cell phone, and iPhone allow twenty-four-hour access to the office, even on weekends and from vacation spots. Adult children of workaholics describe their childhood pain and the lifelong legacies they still carry, and the spouses or partners of workaholics reveal the isolation and loneliness of their vacant relationships. Employers and business colleagues discuss the cost to the company when workaholism dominates the workplace. Chained to the Desk both counsels and consoles. It provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover. Review Quote "This is a comprehensive and highly impressive book that helps workaholics understand and change their behaviors. It presents cutting edge research that reinforces the exercises in the book, and is a great read for both workaholics and the clinicians that treat them."-Dr. Kristin Neff,author of Self-Compassion: How to Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind Promotional "Headline" Provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover. Details ISBN0814789234 Author Bryan E. Robinson Publisher New York University Press Language English ISBN-10 0814789234 ISBN-13 9780814789230 Media Book Format Paperback Residence Charlotte, NC, US Affiliation University of North Carolina, Charlotte University of North Carolina, Year 2014 Imprint New York University Press Subtitle A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Qualifications Ph.D. Edition 3rd DEWEY 158.7 Publication Date 2014-02-21 Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title CHAINED TO THE DESK 3/E UK Release Date 2014-02-21 NZ Release Date 2014-02-21 US Release Date 2014-02-21 Pages 271 Edition Description 3rd edition Alternative 9780814724637 Audience General AU Release Date 2014-02-20 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780814789230

Book Title: Chained to the Desk (Third Edition)

Number of Pages: 271 Pages

Publication Name: Chained to the Desk (Third Edition): A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them

Language: English

Publisher: New York University Press

Item Height: 229 mm

Subject: Psychology

Publication Year: 2014

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 363 g

Author: Bryan E. Robinson

Item Width: 152 mm

Format: Paperback