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    Chained to the Desk (Second Edition)

    By Bryan E. Robinson

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    As seen on 20/20, The Early Show, and ABC World News TonightAmericans love a hard worker. The man or woman who works eighteen-hour days and eats his or her meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and ultimately to physical and mental collapse. Chained to the Desk, best-selling author and widely respected family therapist Bryan E. Robinson's groundbreaking book, originally published in 1998, was the first comprehensive portrait of the workaholic. Thousands benefited from this innovative book, which profiles the myths behind this greatly misunderstood disorder and the inner psychological battle that work addicts wage against themselves. Intended for anyone touched by what Robinson calls ?the best-dressed problem of the twenty-first century,? the author also provides an inside look into the impact on those who live and work with them — partners, spouses, children, and colleagues — as well as the appropriate techniques for clinicians who treat them. In this new and updated edition, Robinson portrays the many different kinds of workaholism, drawing on hundreds of case reports from his own original research and years of clinical practice. From California to the Carolinas, men and women tell of their agonizing bouts with workaholism and the devastations left in its wake, struggles made all the more challenging in a world where the computer, cell phone, and Blackberry allow twenty-four-hour access to the office, even on weekends and from vacation spots. Adult children of workaholics describe their childhood pain and the lifelong legacies they still carry, and the spouses or partners of workaholics reveal the isolation and loneliness of their vacant relationships. Employers and business colleagues discuss the cost to the company when workaholism dominates the workplace. Chained to the Desk both counsels and consoles. It provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover. Robinson presents strategies for workaholics and their loved ones on how to cope, and for people in the workplace on how to distinguish between work efficiency and workaholism.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNYU Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
    ISBN9780814775967
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    Bryan E. Robinson

    Bryan E. Robinson is an author, psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He maintains a private clinical practice and writes murder mysteries on the side. His tagline is, "I heal by day and kill by night." His first novel, Way DEAD Upon the Suwannee River was filmed as a pilot for a television series under the name of Limestone Gumption. He has completed his second novel in the series, She'll Be KILLING 'Round the Mountain. In addition to his fiction, Robinson has authored forty nonfiction books, including his latest, Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Work-Life Balance (2023) and #Chill: Turn Off Your Job and Turn on Your Life (2019). His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and he has written for over one-hundred professional journals and popular magazines. He has won two awards for writing and has lectured across the United States and throughout the world. His work has been featured on every major television network. He is cohost of the podcast, How's That Working for Ya? The Shrink and Smarty-Pants and a regular contributor to Forbes.com and Thrive Global. He resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains with his spouse, three dogs, and occasional bears at night. You can visit his website at www.bryanrobinsonphd.com.

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      Connotations of the term “workaholic” often involves two countervailing nuances: a positive one that appreciates the value of hard work and a negative one that points out a neglect of personal issues. Many of us in the United States, with all our appreciation of a Protestant work ethic, can suffer from this disease – yes, disease. It can cause pain in the worker along with pain and loneliness in their immediate family (partners and children). Robinson, himself a recovering workaholic and a counselor of workaholics, describes in this book signs to diagnose this problematic behavior and treatments to help alleviate its burden.Because it is not defined in the DSM (psychologists’ Bible), Robinson defines workaholicism as an addiction, one with biochemical and behavioral impacts. It influences the hormonal makeup of the workaholic as well as the culture around the workaholic. Each of Robinson’s twelve chapters begins with a testimonial about how this problem has significantly impacted someone’s everyday life. Readers can easily identify themselves or those around them in these stories.Most distressing to a psychologist like Robinson is how workaholics tend to destroy their lives outside of work to support their addiction to work. They obsess about work even when they’re not working. Their relationships are built to feed into their work. Partners and children are not allowed to be themselves but instead must support the ambitions of the workaholic in a codependent manner. However, because both workaholic and family work incredibly hard, this disease often masks in professional success and social admiration. Still, as Robinson carefully records, the pain and dysfunction remain, and clinicians can help.I come from a heavily workaholic family of origin but have slowly and deliberately adapted my habits away from constantly obsessing about work. This book affirmed many of these changes, wrought over decades, as positive ones. It also pointed me to ways that I can continue to change and become more impactful – both in my work and in my life outside of work.Work is not evil, but how we approach it can become problematic. Workaholics and those close to them, along with clinicians who treat them, can benefit from reading this book critically. Robinson claims that many clinicians overlook symptoms of this addiction because they themselves are workaholics. Work-life balance must begin at the root, and even the innocent victims of the disease (both partners and children) must examine themselves to ascertain how they’ve enabled the workaholic’s behavior. This book is a great way to undertake such a self-examination.
    • 3/5
      Appears better than chill, but still struggling with finding the core ideas about how to change my thinking / beliefs so that my perspective changes.doesn't make this paradigm shift easy.