Work Therapy: Or The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life
- Author Naomi Shragai
- Narrator Naomi Shragai
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 8 hours and 45 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Business and Management, Family and health, Office and workplace, Popular psychology, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Relationships: friends / peer groups, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Working patterns and practices.
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What to expect
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Previously published as The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life, 2021.
'Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an array of other office issues, are what Naomi Shragai offers in Work Therapy. If you're searching for a new way to handle office politics, you could well find the answers in this book.' - Sunday Times
There's no place like home...or work?
You probably don't realise this, but every working day you replay and re-enact conflicts, dynamics and relationships from your past. Whether it's confusing an authority figure with a parent; avoiding conflict because of past squabbles with siblings; or suffering from imposter syndrome because of the way your family responded to success, when it comes to work we are all trapped in our own upbringings and the patterns of behaviour we learned while growing up.
Many of us spend eighteen formative years or more living with family and building our personality; but most of us also spend fifty years - or 90,000 hours - in the workplace. With the pull of the familial so strong, we unconsciously re-enact our personal past in our professional present - even when it holds us back.
Through intimate stories, fascinating insights and provocative questions, business psychotherapist Naomi Shragai will transform how you think about yourself and your working life. Based on thirty years of expertise and practice, Shragaiwill show you that what is holding you back is within your gift to change - and the first step is to realise how you, like the rest of the people you work with, habitually confuse your professional present with your personal past.
©2023 Naomi Shragai (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
Work is emotional. But the foundational fiction of jobs – that they are separate from the people who do them – causes grief and frustration every day. The gift of this book is to help us understand who we are, who our co-workers are, in the round, as flesh and blood, not economic units of production. It can help managers and the managed, bosses and the bossed, to find in work and in each other the humanity and warmth, growth and forgiveness that this crucial part of our lives deserves.
Nobody understands the everyday madness of working life better than Naomi Shragai. This book should be read by everyone who ventures anywhere near an office.
Wise and illuminating… A must read for those who care about the human side of work, which should be all of us.
A Miracle of a book…Captivating… I couldn’t put it down. As Carl Jung once warned, “when an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.” People would do well to not leave things to fate but have a serious look at this book.
A great book, packed with insights and evocative human stories.
Nobody understands the everyday madness of working life better than Naomi Shragai. This book should be read by everyone who ventures anywhere near an office.
A great book, packed with insights and evocative human stories.
A completely compelling guide to the inner psychological workings of our jobs – brilliantly enlightening and incidentally a vital survival guide.
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