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Emotional Needs for Control: Podcast 120

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This podcast is the narrated version of my article The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Control.

Part three of the series explores the need for control and how it can betray us when it is met in unhealthy ways.

In this episode I talk about:

  • What can you control in your life?
  • Why we all need a sense of control
  • The dark side of our need for control
  • Learned helplessness: learning not to control
  • The need for rebellion
  • When the ‘need’ morphs into a ‘greed’ for control
  • When the need for control is not met in a healthy way
  • Five simple steps to tyranny
  • How a scammer abuses the need for control

Or watch this episode of the podcast on video below:

References/Notes:

  1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb00133.x/full
  2. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01634372.2016.1267672
  3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1991.tb01832.x/full
  4. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392498800080
  5. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1988-35828-001
  6. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1975-10978-001
  7. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.12333/abstract
  8. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/erv.605/full

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Mark Tyrrell

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