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The bestselling author of Undoing Depression offers a brain-based guide to permanently ending bad habits

Richard O’Connor’s bestselling book Undoing Depression has become a touchstone in the field, helping thousands of therapists and patients overcome depressive patterns. In Rewire, O’Connor expands those ideas, showing how we actually have two brains—a conscious deliberate self and an automatic self that makes most of our decisions—and how we can train the latter to ignore distractions, withstand temptations, and interrupt reflexive, self-sabotaging responses. Rewire gives readers a road–map to overcoming the most common self-destructive habits, including procrastination, excessive worrying, internet addiction, overeating, risk-taking, and self-medication, among others. By learning valuable skills and habits—including mindfulness, self-control, confronting fear, and freeing yourself from mindless guilt—we can open ourselves to vastly more successful, productive, and happy lives.
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“Rewire gives readers the tools to understand their bad habits and change their lives for the better. This highly practical book offers compelling and measured advice on how to change behaviors and improve lives.”—Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD, author of You Are Not Your Brain and Brain Lock

“Rewire is essential reading for people and clinicians trying to improve their own life and the lives of everyone around them. Fascinating and powerful advice on ending negative thoughts and behaviors and improving your brain."—Andrew Newberg, MD, author of Words Can Change Your Brain

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RICHARD O’CONNOR, PHD, is a practicing psychotherapist with offices in New York and Connecticut, where he currently lives.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plume; Reprint edition (July 21, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0147516323
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0147516329
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.29 x 0.6 x 7.99 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Approachable and General but Great Mindfulness
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2015
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Rewire is an easy to read book that I highly recommend as I think everyone can grow from reading it. Sure, as other reviewers have mentioned, the ideas presented in this book are not new -- but they are established. The main thing for me is the presentation is very well laid out in a well written style that is highly approachable. I have lent this to one friend (the only person I would let see my notes scribbled inside of it) and they strongly agreed with this assessment -- and we both have ADHD, so it's not easy for either of us to sit down and read a book.

I would also recommend using Rewire as more of a starting place, however, as it does a better job of introducing its material than fleshing out specific issues the reader may have. Yet, I think that broadens its range of readers who can receive the insights into the self that Rewire can provide. This is a book that may help you to realize issues you didn't realize you had, but in a gentle, accepting way. To flesh out specific issues, it's probably best not to go to a book anyway, but rather use talk therapy and journaling. Overall I find Rewire to be more supplemental or introductory in its uses, but that's how I think basically all self help books are, and Rewire will help you to focus your path toward help partly due to its broad nature. That is, it can help you realize that there may be underlying parts of your struggle that you haven't seen.

I find it useful to approach this book in a nonlinear way -- picking out chapters as necessary -- but still find the information in the less pertinent chapters to be insightful into my life, even if it is sometimes indirect. I find it useful to now and again pick this up and review sections so as to remind me of insights, reinforce lessons, and review my favorites of the exercises O'Connor includes at the end of each chapter. Some chapters pertain to me, others don't.

For problems like addiction, there are almost definitely better resources than this, but for less acknowledged issues such as procrastination (my favorite thing) it provides a well thought out narrative structure. Though, for addiction, it may help to point out the underlying causes with it's other chapters. My one issue with this book does have to do with its addiction chapter, actually. It is not much more than a rewritten (though waaaay more approachable and accepting) version of the 12 steps.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good self-help book for you with a professional.
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2016
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I liked the books accounts of experimental psychology, that studies have been done into assumptions made about human behaviors. I liked reading about the brain activity research using the brain imaging technology. This book was suggested by my psychotherapist for the two of us to work through together

I've already dealt with the results of gone-untreated childhood and adolescent depression. I am an adult with chronic depression. My unfortunate brain chemistry is kept in balance with antidepressants and a mood stabilizer. This book contains some of the more sound and authentic reports I've heard about how our brains operate. There's are facts and explanations, new information to me, that I found helpful. I am using this book's exercises to help me to do the things I want to be doing to improve my life situation.

For myself to get affordable mental health treatment, I've used mental health clinics for about twenty years. I've met social workers trying out their horrible pop-psychology ignorance, helpful psychotherapists, and one super psychiatrist. I've been genome tested for what antidepressants my body best metabolizes. I've been acquainted with people of a wide range of mental illness and addictions. This book, for myself, explained how psychological experiments have confirmed what's been tried in 12 step programs and psychotherapy. What has worked and why or why not. Working through the book, I have been encouraged to work through its exercises, taking an honest look at why I so often don't succeed or follow through at my objectives. I've been doing the strategies to get around my self-sabotaging.

I don't think this book would be so helpful without going through it with my therapist. Week by week, we read and I do the exercises. We talk over my experiences. This book has given me enough examples to convince me that going it alone would be less helpful. I've learned why the conscious and unconscious mind can be frightening to each other, initially in conflict, unless given some comfort and encouragement. Keeping a journal has been helpful. Beware of the journey, emotions have caught me by surprise. It's been good having someone there asking me to stretch myself and be unaccountable.

The hardest truths I read in this book were that people who buy self-help books don't read them, and that we make ourselves feel better by making empty promises to ourselves day by day. If you're lying to yourself deap-down over once-again going to improve your situation, you'll buy this book and put it away on a shelf.
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Sophia
5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal! Practical and wise!
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2022
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Rare is it when you find a book that has great depth and is also practical, all rolled up in a psychology book. Not only did I learn terms and concepts, but the deeper, underlying reasons for why we do what we do are cogently explained. I absolutely love this book and would recommend it to any and everyone. There is always hope!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Largely Helpful
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2023
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I really appreciate how some very important concepts were plainly stated in this book. Even concepts that I had some previous understanding of are starting to make more sense after reading. It has helped me understand more of the relationship between my conscious thoughts and subconscious- which is so tricky to figure out without guidance. Like I said, the book is largely helpful, and I would recommend it. In my opinion, however, the author does make mention of several pretty evident biases. These opinions and biased examples do not at all add value to the book and had me wanting to give up reading it all together at some points. Just have it on your radar that he makes some pretty icky comments at times, but there is also a good amount of professional and helpful content in the book that make it worth the read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Kindle format problems
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2016
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The book itself is incredibly helpfull. But the kindle formatting cuts off every single table in the book, and there are a good number. Not cut off as in the material is on the next page. Cut off as in the material in the far panels of the table isn't viewable at all. Essentially, if you buy the kindle book, you don't get everything you pay for. I've made several reports of the issue, and no action has been taken.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2023
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Really hit my issues head on. I recommended anyone struggling with addiction to read it and put the principles into practice.
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PhilL
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2022
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A very important and useful book. I found it comprehensive and easy to read;
can help anyone facing addiction and self-destructive behaviour. Almost every page had something
I could relate to or see the truth of. There is some repetition but always with a new aspect or example,
or to tie things together with a new context. Recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Conhecer um pouco mais sobre você mesmo.
Reviewed in Brazil on September 15, 2019
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Com relação ao produto, não vejo ponto negativo. Estou completamente satisfeito! Excelente.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Germany on March 23, 2020
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Ajinkya
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to read and re-read
Reviewed in India on November 13, 2017
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It's a book to read and re-read. I got to know so much about the sub-conscious brain and how it affects our mood, lifestyle and overall life.
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Armengaud
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool book very interesting
Reviewed in France on July 17, 2017
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I really like this book it helps with many aspects and many self destructive things we do, it also motivates to meditate, think and see things differently. Super easy to
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