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Manage Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide (Out Of Print. New Ed Due Feb 07)Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionSelf-help and personal betterment tomes are often so earnest and so zealous to help everybody have a perfect life that they are off-putting to readers who merely want some advice. Butler and Hope's low-key compendium of mental self-help is refreshingly free of such obsessiveness. Bright, readable, and insightful, it offers modest goals that are bracingly achievable by means of "skills, understanding, and strategies to suit your circumstances and inclinations." Drawing on their clinical experience, they dissect and illuminate specific complaints and offer simple advice. Table of contentsIntroduction; 1. What to expect from this guide; 2. The scientific background; Part 1: The two foundations of mental fitness; 3. Value yourself; 4. You can change; Part 2: Seven basic skills; 5. Managing yourself and your time; 6. Facing the problem; 7. Treating yourself right; 8. Problem solving: a strategy for change; 9. Keeping things in perspective: help from cognitive therapy; 10. Building self confidence and self-esteem; 11. Learning to relax; Part 3: How to improve your relationships; 12. The importance of relationships; 13. The first key to good relationships: being fair to yourself and others; 14. The second key to good relationships: recognizing voices from the past; 15. The third key to good relationships: relationships as systems; Part 4: The twin enemies of good mood; Anxiety; 16. Getting the better of anxiety and worry; 17. Overcoming fear and phobias; 18. Stress: how to live with the right amount of it; 19. Dealing with panic: controlling the alarm system; Depression; 20. Depression - the common cold of the mind; 21. Digging yourself out of depression; 22. How to become less vulnerable to depression; Part 5: Mind and body; 24. Overcoming sleep problems; 25. Good eating habits; 26. Averting problems with alcohol; 27. Tranquillizers and how to come off them; Part 6: The working mind; 28. The fundamentals of effective study; 29. Key study skills: reading, making notes, and using the material; 30. How to improve your memory: 1. The palest ink and other external memory aids; 31. How to improve your memory: 2. Internal memory aids; 32. Making decisions; 33. Thinking straight |