The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life: (And the Eight Realities That Will Save You)

The psychologist presents the advice she shares each day with listeners of her radio program, explaining how listeners deceive themselves and how they can help themselves in their lives and loves.

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Read by the Author, Dr. Joy Browne

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Every day on her nationally syndicated radio program Dr. Joy Browne gets calls from people looking for sympathy.

They don't get it.

Many of Dr. Joy's nine million listeners -  like so many of us - seek the kind of help that only makes us feel good about feeling bad. Dr. Joy believes that we can do better. She knows we can feel good for the best reason of all: because we have gathered the courage and the smarts to say good-bye to the fantasies that perpetuate our problems and shake hands with the realities that give us control of our lives.

Dr. Joy has spent nearly twenty years listening to and advising thousands of women and men about their frustrations and disappointments. She has diagnosed the ways we get in trouble and stay there. In turn, she has a proven prescription for freedom from our self-defeating patterns of thought and behavior that allows