Download or read book Towards Happiness A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way written by Ahron Friedberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of clinical cases, Towards Happiness presents an engaging, insightful look at how we define and achieve happiness in core aspects of our lives: work and money, wellness and personal growth, sex and love, family and friendship, and aging. The book includes a series of essays by Dr. Ahron Friedberg, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, concerning how his patients sought to achieve greater happiness during challenging periods of their lives, and how as a consequence they grew personally and professionally. Each chapter considers a core topic through the lens of Dr. Friedberg’s practice, demonstrating how patients worked through difficult, sometimes chronic personal issues. Throughout, there are useful summaries of key points. While candidly acknowledging that each life is different, Towards Happiness offers practical examples that can enhance readers’ efforts to achieve greater levels of happiness and reorient their lives towards a deeper capacity for happiness. Towards Happiness offers honest insights into the compromises, sacrifices, and resulting degrees of success that characterize pursuing happiness, and will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, and other mental health professionals. It will also be useful reading for anyone seeking to understand the achievement of happiness in their own lives.
Download or read book The how of Happiness written by Sonja Lyubomirsky and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The How of Happiness is about how to find lasting happiness - how to become and remain a happier person. Based on scientific research and trials, this book charts new territory in popular psychology.
Download or read book The Path to Happiness written by Jules Bouchard and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to cultivate happiness and success in your life with this comprehensive book on personal development. This practical guide introduces you to fundamental principles, inspiring stories, and concrete advice to help you achieve happiness and success in your own life. With techniques such as daily gratitude, mindfulness practice, and the development of meaningful relationships, you will learn how to improve your mindset, boost your self-confidence, and attract more good things into your life. This book is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their well-being and continue their journey towards happiness and success.
Download or read book The How of Happiness written by Sonja Lynbiomorsky and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key tenet of The How of Happiness is that every human being has a happiness 'set point' which, depending on how high or low it is, can determine how positive or negative they feel. The book offers a practical approach to help readers increase their set point, and so find a level of happiness above that which they would normally feel, and feel more satisfaction in life. Based on scientific research and trials, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a practical plan to enable readers to achieve a more positive outlook at home, at work and in their personal life. It will also be of enormous benefit to the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from depression in the UK - it provides the tools to feel better about life.
Download or read book Everyday Leadership written by Ahron Friedberg, M.D. and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Leadership examines how individuals in everyday, relatively small settings can succeed in leadership positions. The book provides tools for tackling the unique psychological and external challenges that everyday leaders face, and offers principles that they can adapt to their own situations. Dr. Ahron Friedberg, who regularly advises leaders and would-be leaders, emphasizes the social aspect of leadership, and explores how those who are new to leadership – and those in established positions – can leverage their support networks and thrive in their roles. The book follows the experience of real people who have faced leadership challenges and learned from them, demonstrating how readers can learn from these examples and apply them to their own circumstances. Guided by a practical leadership roadmap, chapters examine concepts such as vision, determination, flexibility, planning, organization, and responsibility using extensive case studies, with reflective questions and key takeaways that help the reader consider how to apply these principles to their own leadership challenges. This book is an essential read for HR professionals, executive coaches, management consultants, leadership trainers, and organizational psychologists as well as those facing leadership challenges in their profession.
Download or read book The Pursuit of Happiness written by Mitchell Charles Holloman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pursuit of Happiness: * Embark on a life-changing journey with "The Pursuit of Happiness: " This enlightening book is your guide to deciphering the complexities of happiness and learning how to weave it into the fabric of your daily life. Within the pages of this transformative work, you'll explore the multifaceted nature of happiness - what it truly means, why it seems elusive to many, and how you can capture it in your everyday moments. Drawing from a rich tapestry of psychological research, philosophical insights, and personal anecdotes, "The Pursuit of Happiness" offers a holistic look at the ingredients of a joyful life. **Discover: ** - **The Myths of Happiness**: Debunk common misconceptions that may be hindering your path to joy. - **The Power of Perspective**: Learn how shifting your perspective can unveil happiness in even the most mundane aspects of life. - **Mindfulness and Gratitude**: Understand how these powerful practices can lead to a deeper appreciation of life and a more sustained sense of joy. - **Relationships and Connection**: Unravel the role of relationships in fostering happiness and how to cultivate meaningful connections. - **Passion and Purpose**: Find out how aligning your daily activities with your passions and values can lead to deeper satisfaction and happiness. - **Overcoming Obstacles**: Equip yourself with strategies to navigate through life's inevitable challenges while maintaining a positive outlook. - **Daily Habits for Happiness**: Incorporate simple, actionable habits into your routine that have been proven to boost mood and well-being. "The Pursuit of Happiness" is more than just a book; it's a journey toward a happier, more fulfilled life. Whether you're looking to find more joy in your daily routines, improve your mental well-being, or simply understand the true meaning of happiness, this book offers a comprehensive and engaging guide. Let "The Pursuit of Happiness" be your companion as you navigate the highs and lows of life, guiding you with wisdom, empathy, and practical advice. Start your journey today and step closer to a life brimming with joy and satisfaction.
Download or read book The Courage to Be Happy written by Ichiro Kishimi and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to the international phenomenon The Courage to Be Disliked, discover how to reconnect with your true self, experience true happiness, and live the life you want. What if one simple choice could unlock your destiny? Already a major Japanese bestseller, this eye-opening and accessible follow-up to the “compelling” (Marc Andreessen) international phenomenon The Courage to Be Disliked shares the powerful teachings of Alfred Adler, one of the giants of nineteenth-century psychology, through another illuminating dialogue between the philosopher and the young man. Three years after their first conversation, the young man finds himself disillusioned and disappointed, convinced Adler’s teachings only work in theory, not in practice. But through further discussions, the philosopher and the young man deepen their own understandings of Adler’s powerful teachings and learn the tools needed to apply them to the chaos of everyday life. To be read on its own or as a companion to the bestselling first book, The Courage to Be Happy reveals a bold new way of thinking and living, empowering you to let go of the shackles of past trauma and the expectations of others, and to use this freedom to create the life you truly desire. Plainspoken yet profoundly moving, The Courage to Be Happy will illuminate your life and brighten the world as we know it. Discover the courage to choose happiness.
Download or read book Chaotic Happiness written by T.J. Hoegh and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding happiness in the chaos is one of the hardest things you can do. It’s also one of the most important. Covid, financial insecurity, political division, social unrest, gun violence, climate fears--they've created a chaotic reality that we will be dealing with for years to come. Even long after some of these challenges start to lose their headlines and prime-time news slots, they will continue to occupy space in our minds, keeping us anxious, depressed, and angry, and ultimately keeping us from becoming our happiest selves. But maybe it doesn't have to be that way. Chaotic Happiness challenges the notion that happiness belongs only to those who can escape these tragedies. “Chaotic Happiness” is the idea that happiness comes from being able to confront the chaos, not run from it. This book serves as a guide for anyone who’s willing to wage their battle to fight for happiness. In it, licensed therapist and mental health TikToker T.J. Hoegh outlines the Three Rules for Chaotic Happiness: - Find Yourself - Find Your People - Find Your Purpose Through a combination of self-help advice and exercises, you'll embark on your own journey to discovering “Chaotic Happiness” for yourself and develop skills that will help you hold onto it. You'll learn how to explore your own psyche, improve the quality of your relationships, and understand the impact of the outside world. By working through this evidence-based collection of interventions you’ll have all the tools you need to combat the chaotic world and arrive at your happiest self.
Download or read book Finding Happiness written by Virginia Murphy-Berman and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to be happy and to find contentment and meaning in our lives. But sometimes the harder we search for happiness, the more elusive it seems to become. Perhaps someone tells us that the achievement of happiness may require us to make some fairly big changes in our lives, such as increasing our level of self-esteem, or letting go of our anger, or embracing new and difficult challenges. We need, in essence, to become a different kind of person. While this type of advice may sound interesting in theory, it is tiring and hard to follow. In the current book you will not be advised to change the way you are in any basic sense. Rather, you will simply be asked to play with your perspective and with how you tend to look at things. Subtle recalibrations in our focus and in what we bring to our attention can have a powerful impact on how we view ourselves and our life. You will learn that you have a choice in what you bring into your awareness. You are the author of your own life narrative, and you, in a sense, create the world of your own experience. Just learning that we all have this type of choice can be liberating. The book is divided into 14 short chapters. The first five chapters concern how to increase contentment and satisfaction when thinking of the past; the next four deal with finding increased joy in the present; and the last five are about learning to think about the future with increased optimism and hope. The tone of the book is accessible and inviting. Concepts are brought to life by giving many applied examples and illustrations of ideas. Carefully crafted and tested exercises are included that nudge you into new ways of thinking and experiencing. Finally, thoughtful questions are incorporated at the end of each chapter to encourage you to think deeply about the concepts presented and to relate them not just to your own life, but also to the timely issues of our day. This book will be of interest both to the average reader and to students taking classes on positive psychology, where it could serve either as a main text in a short course or a supplement to a semester-long course.
Download or read book The Happiness Track written by Emma Seppala and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading expert on health psychology, well-being, and resilience argues that happiness is the key to fast tracking our professional and personal success. Everyone wants to be happy and successful. And yet the pursuit of both has never been more elusive. As work and personal demands rise, we try to keep up by juggling everything better, moving faster, and doing more. While we might succeed in the short term, it comes at a cost to our well-being, relationships, and, paradoxically, our productivity. In The Happiness Track, Emma Seppala, the science director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University and director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project, explains that our inability to achieve sustainable fulfillment is tied to common but outdated notions about success. We are taught that getting ahead means doing everything that’s thrown at us (and then some) with razor-sharp focus and iron discipline; that success depends on our drive and talents; and that achievement cannot happen without stress. The Happiness Track demolishes these counter-productive theories. Drawing on the latest findings from the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience—research on happiness, resilience, willpower, compassion, positive stress, creativity, mindfulness—Seppala shows that finding happiness and fulfillment may, in fact, be the most productive thing we can do to thrive professionally. Filled with practical advice on how to apply these scientific findings to our daily lives, The Happiness Track is a life-changing guide to fast tracking our success and creating the anxiety-free life we want.
Download or read book Finding Your Way to Happiness written by Brad Anastasia and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the assumptions you've made about how to live a good life were inaccurate? What if, despite doing everything you thought was right in life, you still wound up unhappy? What if the life plan your parents, peers, or society thought was best for you, isn't the kind of life you really wanted to live? Imagine waking up one day and realizing you've lived your life the wrong way, only it's too late to do anything about it. Broken down into twenty-five essential life lessons that focus on relationships, careers, health, and life in general, Finding Your Way to Happy will help you answer the question: "Am I living my life the right way?" while there is still time to do something about it. Read and find out why: * Financial success isn't a prerequisite to happiness * Your genetics don't always have your best interests in mind * People don't change without extraordinary effort * Nothing very bad lasts for very long * Happiness doesn't have to be complicated Filled with actionable advice on how to find happiness and meaning in today's world, Finding Your Way to Happy provides the knowledge you need to make smarter life choices.
Download or read book Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture written by Berjanet Jazani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and insightful book merges Lacanian theory, psychoanalytic case studies, and the author’s personal experiences to illuminate the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in mapping contemporary subjectivity. Using examples from cinema, artificial intelligence, and clinical and cultural references, the book covers major topics within the field, including dreams, the mirror phase, psychosis, hysteria, the position of the analyst, the drive, supervision and the symptom. Each is set within the context of our technologically oriented, market-based society and complemented with empirical vignettes. The book’s final section examines contemporary society and radicalization. Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture is important reading for students and academics in Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as professionals concerned with complex social problems.
Download or read book The Happiness Trap written by Russ Harris and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment – now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse! In this easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term. He then provides an effective means to escape through the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking new approach based on mindfulness skills. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. Mindfulness skills are easy to learn and will rapidly and effectively help you to reduce stress, enhance performance, manage emotions, improve health, increase vitality, and generally change your life for the better. The book provides scientifically proven techniques to: reduce stress and worry; rise above fear, doubt and insecurity; handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively; break self-defeating habits; improve performance and find fulfilment in your work; build more satisfying relationships; and, create a rich, full and meaningful life.
Download or read book Affirmation of the dream There is happiness in living written by Victoria Socolova and published by Victoria Socolova. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of our dreams is something more than our reality. It is in a dream where we can find ourselves in any point of space and time, where we learn secrets of the part, essence of the present and possibilities of the future. It is only in dreams where we can meet those who are no more with us, study options for forthcoming events or make our choice… The project is unique, and all the information you will find in this book, is published for the first time. One of the major goals of the project is to search dreamers for having joint dreams on the basis of certain setups called dream affirmations. For many of you most of this knowledge will mean real opportunity to manage your dreams and effectively use your connection with the unconsciousness and earth informational field, as well as find solutions to real problems, activate reserves of the organism, heal yourself, enter dreams of other people and meet those who are far from you in your dreams. There will be those of you who will open a new transcendent world with this book – a world which can change your life so much that you’ll become a completely different person seeing what others cannot see and experiencing new laws of the universe on your own.
Download or read book Real World Psychology written by Catherine A. Sanderson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real World Psychology balances comprehensive coverage of the key concepts in introductory psychology with a concise presentation style and engages students with current and interesting research that explores these concepts in real-life contexts. Real World Psychology features the incomparable author team of Karen Huffman (Palomar College) and Catherine Sanderson (Amherst College) who create an outstanding text that is appealing to students and instructors at a wide range of academic institutions. The new edition has been thoroughly updated and features a new focus on Scientific Thinking and Practical Applications underscoring the fact that connecting the principles of psychological science to everyday life is critical to student engagement, and ultimately key to their success – not only in the introductory psychology course, but in whatever their chosen field of study and in everyday life. Students will leave the course with an appreciation of how a basic, yet scientific understanding of human behavior can benefit them in their studies, in their personal lives, and in their professional endeavors.
Download or read book Five Steps to Happiness written by Murphy Enda and published by Liberties Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is there to be enjoyed, not endured' In Five Steps to Happiness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist Enda Murphy guides the reader through the five kinds of thinking and behaviour that lead to panic attacks, anxiety and depression. With a unique and simple style, free from psychobabble, Enda explains the reasons why most of us have these five habits. He clarifies what mental health actually is and investigates why we keep driving the thinking and behaviour that causes our unhappiness. He explains where our emotions come from and challenges our perception of what we think is normal. The five habits are also described in exercises throughout the book which teach the reader how they manifest themselves and how to identify the triggers behind them. With many of his ex clients allowing him to use their stories, Enda is able to demonstrate the development of each habit through a stage-by-stage examination of each client's experience. It is this clear and exact approach that makes Murphy's book so effective at getting to the root of why we experience mental distress. Through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Enda teaches the reader methods whereby those of us who experience mental health difficulties can introduce into our lives, skills to change our destructive thinking and behaviours. While primarily a book for those who are experiencing anxiety and depression, it is also one for those wishing to understand why these conditions occur, those whose families and friends may be suffering and also therapists and health professionals who would like to learn more about how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy works in real life.
Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
