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