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Overview
This book may well change your view of your own behavior, because it provides a unique set of techniques which can be used as both defenses and therapies with regard to our most common psychological problems. Using concepts from evolutionary psychology, the author explains why having a clear sense of control over our own life is critical for our mental health, the natural systems that are available for us to achieve this result, and how we can recover a sense of control if we happen to lose this crucial quality. The theme of this book is that most psychopatholoy ultimately stems from feeling powerless over one's own life, or just having the perception that one is powerless, even if this is not true. The solution offered here is that one should take systematic goal-oriented action to rebuild a sense of personal power, and move steadily toward strong mental, and physical, health. The author explains why our ability to generate self-confidence by steadily achieving small successes has been developed through the ages by evolution and therefore is genetically driven, why such a reaction itself requires no "effort" on the part of the individual, and how this very basic human reality can be explicitly utilized to produce life-changing results. Mental health professionals will find that this book expands their range of techniques. Patients themselves, and members of the lay public with an interest in psychology, will find the discussion here to be both fascinating and directly useful. Students of psychology will be fundamentally influenced by these concepts.Discusses taking systematic, goal-oriented action to rebuild a sense of personal power & therapeutic methods to use.
Book Details
Published
August 1, 1996
Publisher
Seattle [Wash.] : H&H Publishers, c1996.
Pages
367
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780889371385