What you can change and what you can't : the complete guide to successful self-improvement / Martin E.P. Seligman.

By:

Seligman, Martin E. P [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Knopf, 1994Edition: First editionDescription: x, 317 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0679410244
9780679410249

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

158.1 20

LOC classification:

BF637.C4 S45 1994

Contents:

What changes? : what doesn't change? -- Booters and bootstrappers : the age of self-improvement and psychotherapy -- Drugs, germs, and genes : the age of biological psychiatry -- Everyday anxiety -- Catastrophic thinking : panic -- Phobias -- Obsessions -- Depression -- The angry person -- Post-traumatic stress -- Sex -- Dieting : a waist is a terrible thing to mind -- Alcohol -- Shedding the skins of childhood -- Depth and change : the theory.

Summary: This book] analyzes authoritative scientific research on treatments for alcoholism, anxiety, weight loss, anger, depression, and a range of phobias and obsessions to discover what is the most effective way to address each condition. It describes what does not work, and pinpoints the techniques and therapies that do work best for each condition, discussing why they work and how they can be used to make long-lasting change.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-301) and index.

This book] analyzes authoritative scientific research on treatments for alcoholism, anxiety, weight loss, anger, depression, and a range of phobias and obsessions to discover what is the most effective way to address each condition. It describes what does not work, and pinpoints the techniques and therapies that do work best for each condition, discussing why they work and how they can be used to make long-lasting change.

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