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Your childhood in the workplace

Psychotherapist Naomi Shragai on how our emotional baggage can damage our work life.. She advises businesses and employees on how to recognise our deeper personal impulses.

Psychotherapist Naomi Shragai talks to Evan Davis about how our emotional baggage can harm our work life.. She advises businesses and employees on how to recognise our deeper personal impulses, which often stem from our childhoods. Her book 'The Man Who Mistook his Job for His Life' catalogues phenomena like narcissism, fear of rejection and imposter syndrome, Naomi tells us how to recognise these powerful forces, and what we can do about them.
Producer: Julie Ball
Studio Manager: Neil Churchill
Production Coordinators: Siobhan Reed and Sophie Hill

This programme was made in association with The Open University

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28 minutes

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Sat 5 Feb 202217:30
BBC Radio 4

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    BBC Radio 4

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