Mindfulness

Mindfulness Skills: Volume 1

This easy-to-read self-help book is firmly based on the principles of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. The title reflects a key theme: that popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and often make us miserable. The book covers in detail how to use mindfulness skills, values, and effective action to enhance health, vitality, and life satisfaction.

Based on a revolutionary new development in human psychology, this book will show you groundbreaking ways to:

• handle painful feelings far more effectively
• escape the grip of self-defeating habits
• rise above your fears, doubts and insecurities
• find more fulfilment in your work
• build more satisfying relationship, and, above all,
• create a rich, full and meaningful life.

Schema Therapy

Reinventing Your life

Do you feel that even the people closest to you don't care enough about you or don't understand you as well as you would like? Do you believe that you are somehow defective--that no one who truly knows you could possibly love and accept you as you really are? Do you find that even when you earn approval, you still feel unfulfilled or undeserving? If so, you're caught in a "lifetrap": a self-defeating pattern that starts in childhood and reverberates throughout your life.

In this vital guide, psychologists Jeffrey Young and Janet Klosko draw upon the breakthrough techniques of cognitive therapy to help you recognize and change self-defeating thoughts, feelings, and behaviors--quickly and easily. They describe eleven of the most common lifetraps, provide a diagnostic test for each, and offer specific, step-by-step suggestions on how to help you break free of lifelong hurts, damaging beliefs, and negative behaviors.

Marriage & Relationships

The seven principles and making a marriage work

Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over the course of many years. His findings, and his heavily attended workshops, have already turned around thousands of faltering marriages.

This book is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward in their approach, yet profound in their effect, these principles teach partners new and startling strategies for making their marriage work. Gottman helps couples focus on each other, on paying attention to the small day-to-day moments that, strung together, make up the heart and soul of any relationship. Being thoughtful about ordinary matters provides spouses with a solid foundation for resolving conflict when it does occur and finding strategies for living with those issues that cannot be resolved.

Packed with questionnaires and exercises whose effectiveness has been proven in Dr. Gottman's workshops, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the result of Dr. John Gottman's many years of closely observing thousands of marriages. This kind of longitudinal research has never been done before. Based on his findings, he has culled seven principles essential to the success of any marriage.

1. Maintain a love map.
2. Foster fondness and admiration.
3. Turn toward instead of away.
4. Accept influence.
5. Solve solvable conflicts.
6. Cope with conflicts you can't resolve.
7. Create shared meaning.

Positive Psychology

When am I going to be happy?

Martin Seligman is the founder of the Positive Psychology movement, a shift in attention to the psychology of functional rather than dysfunctional states of mind. Rather than asking how to heal the troubled, Positive Psychology asks how to help people make their lives as good as possible. Seligman has written several books that shade over into self-help, although his work and his recommendations are much better supported by research than many other self-help books. Authentic Happiness : Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment takes the somewhat fuzzy concept of happiness and dissects it neatly, linking happiness to the development and exercise of character strengths.

Seligman describes the various contributors to happiness (your characteristic set-point, your circumstances, and your voluntary control over your thoughts). He makes the point that a set-point is actually more like a range, and you can often move to the high end of your range even if you can’t change the range itself.