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Unleashing the Power of Respect: The I-M Approach
Have you ever wondered why someone is behaving the way they do? Whether it’s a loved one, a stranger, even yourself - human behavior can be puzzling. Our actions can seem counterintuitive, destructive, shocking and even frightening. Yet each of us is a window into the other, when we are willing to look without judgment. When you wonder instead of worry.
In Unleashing the Power of Respect: The I-M Approach, Dr. Joseph Shrand illustrates through his patients' stories that no one is broken. We’re all doing the best we can, with the potential to change in the very next moment.
We are living at our current maximum potential—our I-M.
Our inner critic may be the best we can do, but if we don’t like it we can change it and move to a different I-M. Dr. Shrand gives us the tools we need to make that change a reality.
Unleashing the Power of Respect takes the chaos of life and organizes it into four manageable domains that help us understand who we are and why we do what we do. Dr. Shrand’s method gives us a clear, actionable path where respect leads to value, and value leads to trust. You control no one but influence everyone, and you get to choose the kind of influence you want to be. All of us want the same thing—to be valued by others. This book is your roadmap to unleashing that power of respect.
In Unleashing the Power of Respect: The I-M Approach, Dr. Joseph Shrand illustrates through his patients' stories that no one is broken. We’re all doing the best we can, with the potential to change in the very next moment.
We are living at our current maximum potential—our I-M.
Our inner critic may be the best we can do, but if we don’t like it we can change it and move to a different I-M. Dr. Shrand gives us the tools we need to make that change a reality.
Unleashing the Power of Respect takes the chaos of life and organizes it into four manageable domains that help us understand who we are and why we do what we do. Dr. Shrand’s method gives us a clear, actionable path where respect leads to value, and value leads to trust. You control no one but influence everyone, and you get to choose the kind of influence you want to be. All of us want the same thing—to be valued by others. This book is your roadmap to unleashing that power of respect.
- GenresSelf Help
304 pages, Paperback
Published February 15, 2022
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About the author
Joseph Shrand
9 books7 followersDr. Joseph Shrand is Chief Medical Officer of Riverside Community Care headquartered in Dedham, Mass. He has been a Lecturer of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and an adjunct Faculty of Boston Children's Hospital. He is triple Board certified in adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Shrand hosts a weekly radio show on WATD 95.9 FM, The Dr. Joe Show: Exploring who we are and why we do what we do. He is the author of Manage Your Stress: Overcoming Stress in the Modern World, Outsmarting Anger: Seven Strategies to Defuse our most Dangerous Emotion, the winner of the 2013 Books for a Better Life Awards, 2013 Psychology self help category, The Fear Reflex: Five Ways to Overcome it and Trust your Imperfect Self, and Do You Really Get me? Finding Value in Yourself through Empathy and Connection. Outsmarting Anger has recently been republished in paperback due to demand. Among colleagues and staff, he is affectionately called “Doctor Joe,” as he was “Joe” in the original children’s cast of the PBS series “Zoom.”
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April 25, 2022
I was rather sceptical when I first picked up "Unleashing the Power of Respect". The first pages struck me as nothing more than common sense even to myself who am not particulary knowledgeable on psychology or human behavioral patterns.
However, the more I read, the more I put together things that, although seemed obvious after reading them, I'd never really been able to put together myself before coming across Dr. Shrand's work.
I found myself applying what I learned in this book without even realising it, because some of the notions became so engraved on my mind, and once I went back to think about certain interactions I had in the last weeks, I realised how I'd put the power of respect and the IM approach into practice and how the outcome of those situations was truly the better for it.
Almost without realising, this book became a trusted handbook for handling everyday life.
However, the more I read, the more I put together things that, although seemed obvious after reading them, I'd never really been able to put together myself before coming across Dr. Shrand's work.
I found myself applying what I learned in this book without even realising it, because some of the notions became so engraved on my mind, and once I went back to think about certain interactions I had in the last weeks, I realised how I'd put the power of respect and the IM approach into practice and how the outcome of those situations was truly the better for it.
Almost without realising, this book became a trusted handbook for handling everyday life.
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