The Last Self-help Book You'll Ever Need: Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, be a Good Blamer, and Throttle Your Inner Child

by PaulPearsall (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $10.69

  A best-selling psychologist shows why pop psychology's most beloved bromides are wrong - and offers heartening, scientific strategies for coping through healthy denial, repression and pessimism You can't love someone until you learn to love yourself . Being healthy means being in touch with your feelings . Never lose hope . These are self-evident truths - right? Wrong argues best-selling psychologist Paul Pearsall in this provocative book. Though everyone from talk show hosts to politicians mouths these platitudes, and self-help bibles are a dime a dozen, their advice simply hasn't helped us live happier or more satisfying lives. Pearsall cites scientific evidence to challenge what he calls the McMorals of self potentialism: the unsubstantiated prescriptions, programmes, guarantees and gurus that define our pursuit of The Good Life. His message is timely: we're fed up with truisms masquerading as truth, and hungry for self-help that really helps. Filled with groundbreaking research and inspiring stories from Dr Pearsall's clinical practice, The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need offers a powerful antidote to the mindless mental languishing that characterizes so much of modern life. The solution is not just to get in touch and suck it up . Instead, Pearsall offers powerful in counter-intuitive strategies. By abandoning the mandate to stay hopeful , for example, we can begin to savour today rather than focus desperately on tomorrow. By allowing ourselves the natural process of grieving instead of relentlessly treating grief as a disease, we can recover from tragedy. With Pearsall's lively and informative roadmap to psychological health, we can say goodbye to our inner child and hello to a better life.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $4.54

  Although the tenets of self-help have been attacked before, Pearsall is the first psychologist to expose these deeply entrenched ideas to scientific scrutiny. And unlike other debunking books, The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need goes beyond skepticism to propose a set of life-affirming (and refreshingly contrarian) axioms that can help anyone lead the Good Life.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $28.80

  Although the tenets of self-help have been attacked before, Pearsall is the first psychologist to expose these deeply entrenched ideas to scientific scrutiny. And unlike other debunking books, The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need goes beyond skepticism to propose a set of life-affirming (and refreshingly contrarian) axioms that can help anyone lead the Good Life.