The Secret of Maturity, Third Edition: Contents

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The Secret of Maturity Third Edition: Contents

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CONTENTS ORGANIZED BY CHAPTER


Begin

  • Title
    • The Secret of Maturity, Third Edition
  • Copyright
    • Copyright © 1989, 1990, 2012 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
  • ISBN
    • ISBN 978-1-878693-31-0
  • Dedication
  • Description

What Is Maturity?

  • Maturity Defined
  • Maturity’s Source: Emotional Responsibility
    • 7 Reasons for Emotional Responsibility
  • Emotional Responsibility Used and Abused
    • Blame Game
  • The Secret of Maturity

Keys to Maturity

  • Run Your Own Mind
    • REBT
    • Attribution Theory
    • General Semantics
    • Internal Locus of Control
    • Inner-Directed Personality
  • Run Your Own Self
    • Self-Ownership
    • Self-Reliance
    • Personal Autonomy
    • Centering
    • Individualist versus Follower
    • External Referenting
  • More Keys to Maturity
    • To Thy Own Self Be True
    • Dependent Feelings Cause Dependent Behaviors
    • Detachment
    • Codependency
    • Boundaries and Limits
    • Systems Theory
    • Creativity
    • Solitude
  • True Strength
    • Immunity to Insults
  • Culture and Maturity
  • Why Immature?

6 Levels of Emotional Maturity

  • Level 1 of Emotional Maturity
    • Emotional Responsibility
  • Level 2 of Emotional Maturity
    • Emotional Honesty
  • Level 3 of Emotional Maturity
    • Emotional Openness
  • Level 4 of Emotional Maturity
    • Emotional Assertiveness
  • Self-Concept: The Enemy Within
  • Level 5 of Emotional Maturity
    • Emotional Understanding
  • Level 6 of Emotional Maturity
    • Emotional Detachment
  • First Self-Test for Emotional Maturity
    • Scoring
    • Level One Items: Emotional Responsibility
    • Level Two Items: Emotional Honesty
    • Level Three Items: Emotional Openness
    • Level Four Items: Emotional Assertiveness
    • Level Five Items: Emotional Understanding
    • Level Six Items: Emotional Detachment
  • Second Self-Test for Emotional Maturity
    • Scoring
    • Emotional Responsibility
    • Emotional Honesty
    • Emotional Openness
    • Emotional Assertiveness
    • Emotional Understanding
    • Emotional Detachment

8 Basic Emotional Skills

  • 1 Detaching, Letting Go, and Freeing Feelings
  • 2 Choosing and Deciding on Feelings
  • 3 Directing and Using Feelings
  • 4 Protecting, Containing, and Caring for Feelings
  • 5 Understanding Feelings or Having Emotional Insight
  • 6 Allowing and Experiencing Feelings
  • 7 Accepting Recognized or Identified Feelings
  • 8 Expressing and Communicating Feelings

Assorted Additions

  • Dualistic Scale for Maturity
  • Middle Way or Synthesis Scale for Maturity
  • 5 Thinking Positions Scale for Maturity
  • 11 Irrational Beliefs
  • 10 Emotions
  • The Do’s and Don’ts of Acceptance
    • Do Accept from Self
    • Don’t Accept from Others
  • 2 Poems about Maturity
    • Blame Game
    • Nothing Makes Me Feel Anything
  • Extrovert versus Introvert
  • Final Insights
    • Cause of Emotions
    • Movie Examples for Intention, Expectation, and Interpretation
    • Share the Secret

Quotations on Maturity

  • Alphabetical by Author

End

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