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The Fear Of Being Replaceable
How the Need to Be Chosen Shapes Love, Work, Jealousy, and Self-Worth
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36096292
EAN: 9798189097393
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Zustellung: Do, 15.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 20.10
Beschreibung
What if the deepest fear is not being abandoned-but discovering that someone else could take your place. A partner mentions someone new. Friends meet without inviting you. A younger colleague adapts faster. An adult child stops calling for advice. A post receives silence. An artificial intelligence begins performing the work that once made you feel valuable. These moments seem unrelated, yet they can activate the same quiet question:. If I disappeared from this role, would anyone notice the difference. The Fear of Being Replaceable. explores the psychology behind our need to be chosen, remembered, valued, and relied upon. Drawing on published research from social psychology, relationship science, organisational psychology, family studies, and the emerging literature on artificial intelligence, Beatrice Lowell examines how the fear of replacement shapes:. jealousy and romantic behaviour;. anxiety about AI, automation, and professional identity;. the transition from active parenthood to the empty nest;. the pain of exclusion from friendships and social groups;. resentment and comparison between adult siblings;. the search for visibility and validation on social media. The book also introduces the psychological concept of mattering. : the human need to feel noticed, important to someone, and relied upon. You will discover:. why jealousy can begin with comparison rather than evidence;. why the possibility of automation can threaten identity before it threatens employment;. why being overlooked can hurt even when nobody intended to exclude you;. how a single family memory can become a lifelong verdict about personal worth;. why seeking more reassurance, control, or online attention often makes the original fear worse;. what research suggests actually helps when your place in someone's life-or in the world-feels uncertain. This is not a promise to make you irreplaceable. It is not empty reassurance, and it does not treat every uncomfortable feeling as a disorder. It is a clear, compassionate field guide to understanding the alarm: what triggers it, what it makes us do, and how to respond without allowing fear to narrow our lives. You may be replaceable in a role. That does not make you replaceable as a person.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Beatrice Lowell
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 52