The problem of self-defeating behaviour

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Good piece in the New York Times about self-defeating behaviour.
Dr Richard A Friedman ponders what makes people sabotage their own success - is there some kind of hidden psychological pay off? He adds:

if someone has a pattern of disappointment in many areas of life, a therapist should consider that it could be self-engineered.
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