Author Mark Stricklin knows what its like to do bonehead things in spite of your best intentions and then get angry at yourself (and occasionally with others). In fact, unless we have given up caring about everything, we all get angry from time to timeand we all need ways to deal with that feeling. In Anger Management, Stricklin explores what makes us angry, how to deal with our anger, and how to deal with angry people. Whats more, he focuses specifically on managing anger rather than elim...

**In this groundbreaking relationship book, positive emotions expert Barbara L. Fredrickson gives us an entirely new way of understanding love and appreciating its benefits.“A radically new conception of love.”—The Atlantic**Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives. Using research from her own lab, Barbara L. Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but as micr...

A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it.John T. Cacioppo’s groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure, and analyzing immune function, he demonstrates the overpowering influence of social context—a factor so strong that it can alter DNA replication. He defines an unrecognized syndrome—chronic...

Now featuring new research and the most current information on the science of happiness, this book presents an outline of the nine choices happy people consistently make.Also included are tools for self-assessment to allow readers to measure happiness-and to find out what might be holding them back from having more of it. Insightful, intimate, and inspiring, How We Choose to Be Happy lets readers learn by example, and take substantial steps toward joining the ranks...

With This Book I Believe Anyone Can Create Abundant Confidence and Self Esteem In Just 7 Weeks.True confidence allows one small man to stare down 3 younger and larger guys who are looking for a fight.True confidence catches the attention of the most beautiful girl or most handsome man in the room.Yet, confidence is a temporary state that can change day to day. What we really want is to feel true confidence coming from our h...

Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia provides a detailed program for eliminating social anxieties based on the latest cognitive behavioral treatments for social phobia.A Jason Aronson Book

**The author of the classic In a Different Voice offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today.“Compelling ... A thrilling new paradigm.” —The Times Literary Supplement**Carol Gilligan, whose In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now asks: Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And c...

When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections. We still identify with our differences more than our similarities, unless it's convenient to do otherwise. Here, two seasoned authors tackle the question of family and what it means to us now and how it might change to help us address the problems that affect us all. Using specific examples throughout the work, they present ...

From best-selling relationship expert comes a common-sense guide to help you and your partner increase your emotional intelligence, teaching you practical ways to express your feelings and strengthen your relationship.What makes a relationship healthy? Most men and women will respond that it's good communication to be able to openly express their own thoughts and feelings, and to better understand their partner's. Emotional Intelligence for Couples explains basic principles of emot...

What Would Freud Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 psychological thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems.Ever wondered what a great therapist like Freud or Jung would have to say about your horrible boss, your phone-checking addiction or an occasional wish to cheat on your partner? Ever wished someone would explain why you sometimes act like an idiot just when you want to look good, or generally keep doing things you don't really ...

FIND OUT: How to Excel as an Introvert and Achieve More Life Success!It is a known fact that there are as much Introverts as Extroverts in the world, yet the common perception is that Extroverts get the better breaks in the game of success.This is so much farther from the truth: History's greats such as Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and Eleonor Roosevelt just to name a few, all have made their mark in the world. And they are all Introverts.In this...

This is an average person's attempt to define fear for what it is, examine its effects on our cognitive abilities and at the same time come up with a solution to its debilitating nature. I will assume that everyone has had the misfortune of fearing real or imagined threats and I will also rightly assume that the experience itself was unpleasant.When engulfed by fear caused by a certain object, it is not the fear itself that we find crippling because we always pay too much attention...