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For hundreds of years, psychology has looked into the dysfunctions and symptoms of the mind. It’s only over the last few decades that the field has started to pay attention to what constitutes a functional and content life. Instead of using disease to understand health, positive psychology studies the components of a good life and helps people not only avoid mental health problems but develop happiness. The work done in positive psychology is now at a point where applications are being developed in positive psychotherapy and extended to those with psychiatric diagnoses in positive psychiatry. While these fields are a recent development they hold the promise of helping all of us live a fulf...
Everyone knows the feeling of a loss of emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical energy after an encounter with another person. In daily life, we dont bother to analyze this feeling any further although we do sense a draining of energy. We tend to accept the relations to those with whom we come into contact as unavoidable and accept many an irritation as part of the job. Some of us even blame ourselves for these negative sentiments. This is because we live in a time in which it is in to be under constant stress; indeed, its almost the done thing these days to be exhausted when you get home in the evening. This socially acceptable fatigue is really an act of self-deception. It underlies dee...
The union of Eastern and European points of view in an effective psycho therapy, such as is described by the author, is very salutary. Especially the parables portray, in attractive symbolism, the wisdom ofthe East, in which psychological insights are represented in what seems to be the simplest way. The author understands how to bring his heritage to bear upon psy chotherapy. Although the categories of his psychological system, for ex ample basic capacities and actual capacities, certainly represent only one of many possible theoretical conceptions, we must conclude from his re port that they can be used effectively in treatment. To be sure, such a sy stem of categories, such a metapsycholo...
Stories do for the soul what medicine does for the body. This maxim comes to life in this book. Short stories of wisdom can sometimes cause an 'Aha Effect' faster than lengthy discussions and analyses. Often, an astonishing change of perspective emerged out of situations which seem to have drifted into a dead end. The first step to change the situation has then been taken. Nossrat Peseschkian narrates stories that have effect because they liberate with laughter and release the mind. He introduces briefly the principles of positive psychotherapy to show why it works and how it works.
This book sheds light onto the following questions: What is life? What are paradise and hell? What is the key to happiness and how can we find it? Humour is one of the important features in this book. The book will appeal to all those who are interested to know the depth of human psychology and also who are willing to change their life for the better. The author has expressed his thoughts and actions in an easy manner through stories and folklore. Therefore, it will not be wrong to say that life will indeed be a paradise, once you read this book.
"Life is a Paradise throws light on the following questions What is life? What are paradise and hell? What is the key to happiness and how can we find It? Humour is one of the important features in this book. The book will appeal to all those who are interested to know the depth of human psychology and also who are willing to change their life for better. Contents : In the groove Preface Seeking paradise, activating energy Paradise is right beside you-A Change of perspective We can make our lives a paradise-On social interaction In Paradise, You've got everything-Generosity and hospitality There are stumbling blocks in paradise too-How not to lose your way Getting underway-To finding wisdom A blessing on the way "
For over a century the focus of psychotherapy has been on what ails us, with the therapeutic process resting upon the assumption that unearthing past traumas, correcting faulty thinking, and restoring dysfunctional relationships is curative. But something important has been overlooked: the positives. Shouldn't making us happier, better people be explicit goals of therapy? Positive Psychotherapy: Workbook guides readers through a session-by-session therapeutic approach based on the principles of positive psychology, an exciting new area of study examining the factors that enable us to flourish. This workbook, designed to be used in conjunction with the accompanying clinician's manual, first e...
Es geht um unsere psychotherapeutische Identität und um unsere Zukunft. Denn wer oder was ich als Psychotherapeut bin und künftig sein werde, liegt nicht nur in meiner Hand. Ein neues Gesetz kann mir ganz einfach und ganz schnell meine bisherige Identität nehmen und mir eine neue überstülpen. Manche meinen, sie seien als Psychotherapeuten zugleich oder zuvorderst Wissenschaftler. Sie haben es gut, denn ihnen wird nichts weggenommen. Andere haben den Eindruck, dass die Wissenschaft ihnen zwar ihren akademischen Basisberuf vermittelte, aber dass das Wesentliche erst außerhalb der Universität gelernt wurde – in der Arbeit mit Patienten – zunächst noch unter Supervision. D. h. dass f...
Dieses Buch bietet die Chance, den negativen Kreislauf von Erschöpfung und Stress zu durchbrechen und neue Kraft und Perspektiven zu gewinnen. Gestresste, die an klassischen Symptomen von allgemeiner Unruhe über Schlafstörungen bis zu Herzrhythmusstörungen leiden, finden über die Methode der "Positiven Psychotherapie" eine genaue Anleitung, was sie selbst tun können. Nachdem die persönlichen Stressfaktoren aufgespürt sind, führt das 4-Wochen-Programm garantiert zu neuer Lebensfreude