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Hardcover
First published September 30, 1993
Is loneliness more terrible than anxiety? (Harry Stack Sullivan, pg. 21)
exterior ... sluggishness and inactivity [can be a] cover-up ... [for] chronic tension (Millon, 1981, pg. 36)
Avoidance can be healthy when it is an interim, transitional goal of psychotherapy. Therapy works in part by enhancing healthy avoidance--by offering the avoidant a temporary sanctuary: the opportunity to become more avoidant now, in preparation for becoming less avoidant in the future. (pg. 64)