What you can change and what you can't
Subtitle: the complete guide to successful self-improvement
By: Martin E.P. Seligman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Change (Psychology); Self-actualization (Psychology); Behavior modification
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Biological psychiatry vs. Psychotherapy and self-improvement. 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 -- Changing your emotional life : anxiety, depression, and anger. Everyday anxiety -- Catastrophic thinking : panic -- Phobias -- Obsessions -- Depression -- The angry person -- Post-traumatic stress -- Changing your habits of eating, drinking, and making merry. Sex -- Dieting : a waist is a terrible thing to mind -- Alcohol -- Growing up : at last. Shedding the skins of childhood -- Depth and change : the theory.