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9780312369071

Happy at Last The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312369071

  • ISBN10:

    0312369077

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-12-22
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Happiness has been written about by everyone from the Dalai Lama (The Art of Happiness) to Daniel Gilbert (Stumbling on Happiness), but inHappy At LastRichard O'Connor takes a fresh look at what happiness is, why we are happy (or not) and how we can stay happy. How? He says we can rewire our brain to be more receptive to happiness by learning to control how our minds work. Drawing on the latest scientific and psychological research, and filled with practical advice and exercises,Happy At Lastis the definitive guide to understanding: The core skills that we need to feel fulfilled in today's world Strategies for increasing happiness Techniques for keeping sadness and stress at bay.Richard O'Connor makes it possible to be, finally,Happy At Last!

Author Biography

RICHARD O’CONNOR, M.S.W., Ph.D., is the author of Undoing Depression and Undoing Perpetual Stress. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, a private, nonprofit mental health clinic serving Litchfield County, Connecticut, overseeing the work of twenty mental health professionals in treating almost a thousand patients per year. He is currently a practicing psychotherapist with offices in Connecticut and New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. IX
Intoductionp. 1
Learning Happinessp. 6
good at being miserable
Contemporary Instantly: The Culturep. 27
Innate Foolishness: The Brainp. 54
Unnecessary Miserly: The Mindp. 68
practicing happiness
A New Pilotp. 99
Less Miseryp. 125
More Joyp. 180
More Satisfactionp. 198
Grief and Pain 228
The Meaning of Lifep. 232
Staying Happyp. 260
Appendix: Further Readingp. 267
Notesp. 269
Bibliographyp. 285
Indexp. 297
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