Wisdom to Know the Difference: Core Issues in Relationships, Recovery and Living

by Charles L. Whitfield

Wisdom to Know the Difference. This book addresses in detail these common Core Issues in Relationships, Recovery and Living, ―how they come about and choices and solutions to use them to your advantage, heal and experience peace. • Needing to be in control • Diculty trusting • Diculty being real • How to handle feelings • Low self-esteem (shame) • Dependence versus Independence • Fear of abandonment • All-or-none thinking and behaving • High tolerance for inappropriate behavior • Over-responsibility for others • Neglecting my own needs • Grieving my ungrieved hurts, losses and traumas • Diculty resolving conict • Diculty giving and receiving love Based on over 35-years of clinical experience assisting people with addictions, trauma survivors and people with various problems in living, Dr. Whiteld describes how to identify and handle each core issue. Dr. Whitfield lives and practices in Atlanta, GA. He has been voted by his peers, since 1993, as one of the Best Doctors in America, and has been a guest researcher and consultant at the CDC since 1998.

338 pages, Paperback

First published April 10, 2012

About the author

Charles L. Whitfield, M.D., is a physician, psychotherapist, author and internationally recognized expert on mental illness, behavioral problems, and recovery from addiction and trauma. He was on the faculty of the Rutgers University Summer Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies from 1978 through 2003, and in private practice of addiction medicine and psychotherapy since 1976. He has also been a consultant and collaborator at the CDC in Atlanta since 1998. He has been voted by his peers as one of the Best Doctors in America every year since 1993. He lives in Atlanta, GA, and is in private practice with his wife, author and therapist, Barbara Harris Whitfield.

Reviews

[David Nash · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay. Some interesting stuff..

But the layout /editing was terrible. Some tables are copy+pasted from images and you can see the JPG compression artefacts. One even had a spelling mistake with the MS Word squiggly underline.

[TimsGlitterBug · Rating 5 out of 5]

Immensely eye-opening and helpful. If you grew up in a wildly dysfunctional environment, this might be quite enlightening as well as empowering.
Personally, my copy of this book is filled with many notes and markings due to the amazingly empathetic advise/understanding found within. I will prolly be reading it again, as It work through the traumas that come with a deeply disturbing family of origin.

[Mubanga]

A very helpful book for identifying our childhood wounds which interrupts our present lives. Very easy to read, and yet very profound. Another one of my blessings. Thank you Charles.

[Elaina Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whitfield focuses on the core issues of recovery. It helped me identify the difference between things I could change and things I had to accept. That discernment became a brick in the foundation of my peace. This is a practical guide for navigating life on life's terms.