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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-301) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

What you can change and what you can't

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

27726698

Responsibility statement

Martin E.P. Seligman

Sub title

the complete guide to successful self-improvement

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

Table Of 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

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