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Bipolar II:
Enhance Your Highs, Boost Your Creativity,
and Escape the Cycles of Recurrent
Depression -- The Essential Guide to
Recognize and Treat the Mood Swings of
This Increasingly Common
Disorder
by Ronald R.
Fieve
Thirty years ago, Dr. Ronald Fieve
pioneered the use of lithium for what was
then known as manic depression. His book
Moodswing was a runaway hit,
published in seven countries. Since then,
Dr. Fieve has focused on patients with
mild bipolaritywhat is now known as
Bipolar II. He has discovered that Bipolar
II patients arealmost across the
boarddriven, successful, high-achieving
individuals who, with the right treatment,
can actually turn their illness into an
asset.
In this first book to concentrate
exclusively on milder bipolarity, Dr.
Fieve explains how newer drugs with fewer
side effects are revolutionizing the
treatment of Bipolar II. Some people with
mild bipolarity may not require drugs at
alljust a specific lifestyle program,
which Dr. Fieve spells out in this book.
In the past, many patients with the
illness have resisted treatment because
they did not want to give up the euphoria
of the highs. But left untreated, the
conditions lows can be
devastatingsometimes resulting in
suicide.
Here, Dr. Fieve reveals his remarkably
successful treatment program (with results
supported by thousands of patient
histories) that allows patients to keep
the highs while minimizing the lows. And
he explains how his program can help turn
the illness into a positive and patients
into what he calls bipolar
beneficials.
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The
Happiness Hypothesis
by Jonathan
Haidt
An award-winning psychologist exposes
traditional wisdom to the scrutiny of
science to show why ancient insights still
help us live more meaningful-and
healthy-lives.
Your grandmother was smarter than you
knew. In fact, grandmothers and other
sages, in cultures all over the world,
have handed down bits of wisdom that ring
true in every language: Do unto others as
you would have others do unto you; what
doesn't kill you makes you stronger; and
life itself is what you make of it all
exist as folkloric wisdom, crossing
religious, historical, and social
boundaries. Now, an esteemed psychologist
puts these maxims under the microscope and
reveals just how true these Truths are-and
why.
Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines two
genres -philosophical wisdom and
scientific research-delighting the reader
with surprising insights. He explains, for
example, why virtue is often not its own
reward, why extroverts really are happier
than introverts, why conscious thinking is
not nearly as important as we think it is,
and why even confirmed atheists experience
spiritual elevation. In a stunning final
chapter, Haidt addresses the grand
question "How can I live a meaningful
life?," offering an original answer that
draws on the rich inspiration of both
philosophy and science.
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Alter Your
Life, by Dr. Kathleen Hall
Themes like "I just don't have time"
and "I'm exhausted" rule our lives today.
We are overbooked, overworked and
overwhelmed. Just getting done what must
be done fills our days. The notion of
finding a precious hour or two to learn
how to create balance, reduce our stress
and discover an intentional life to soothe
our aching souls is simply out of the
question.
Dr. Kathleen Hall's new book, Alter
Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked?
Overwhelmed?, provides an alternative
to the struggle to "make time" for
renewal. In the breakthrough book readers
will:
- Discover how to overcome obstacles
preventing you from living the
intentional life of your dreams
- Practice easy stress reduction
techniques that deliver immediate
results
- Maximize the simple moments in your
life to be the most rewarding
- Enrich the quality of your life by
achieving work-life balance
We can discover how to live an
intentional life in a manner that requires
no doctrine, no memorization of a new
vocabulary, no trekking off to distant
holy lands. It does not require us to
change our jobs, our lifestyle or
transplant our personalities. It doesn't
even require any additional
time.
We can develop our own unique personal
practices that can help us return "home"
once we realize that we are out of
balance. In time these practices will
become an effortless and restorative part
of living an intentional life of mental,
physical and spiritual
well-being.
Alter Your Life: Overbooked?
Overworked? Overwhelmed? offers tools
to help you find your own unique choices
that will bring greater balance to your
demanding life. These simple effective
tools, based on age-old, time-honored
medical, psychological and spiritual
knowledge and wisdom, will soon become
second nature and bring with them a
greater sense of ease and fulfillment.
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Are You
Crazy?: 18 scientific quizzes to test
yourself, by Andrew N.
Williams
From Dr. Dolhenty's review:
- Williams takes a really serious
subject and presents it in an
entertaining way without doing insult
to the seriousness of the matter at
hand. He has culled questions from a
variety of psychological tests and you
are encouraged to answer these
questions, score yourself, and analyze
your responses based on certain
criteria. These "quizzes" are generally
"subjective" in nature, that is, they
deal with what is called the
"affective" domain rather than the
"cognitive" domain of human existence.
Strictly speaking, there are no "right
answers," only "honest" or "dishonest"
ones.
Read all Dr. Dolhenty's review of this
book by clicking HERE.
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Field Notes on
the Compassionate Life: A Search for the
Soul of Kindness, by Marc Ian
Barasch
Marc Ian Barasch, dubbed "one of
today's coolest grown-ups" by
Interview magazine, sets out on a
journey to the heart of compassion. He
discovers its power to change who we are
and the society we have become.
Compassion, he concludes, is "a
prescription for authentic joy."
Can tapping into one simple human
trait, hardwired into our nervous system
and just waiting to be awakened, transform
our lives and the world at large? Could it
help us enjoy new levels of happiness and
contentment? Exploring his subject through
the multiple lenses of psychology and
biology, pop culture and theology, history
and philosophy, Barasch weaves a stirring,
unforgettable account of his search to
find within himself and others: the
ability to live compassionately.
He examines such fascinating questions
as: What can we learn from exceptionally
empathetic people? Can we increase our
kindness quotient with practice? How do we
open our hearts to those who do us harm?
What if the great driving force of our
evolution were actually "survival of the
kindest?"
Drawing from influences as disparate as
Buddhist monks and skeptical
neuroscientists, Barasch creates a
riveting, persuasive argument that a
simple shift in consciousness can have a
tremendous, lasting impact on our psyches,
our relationships, our health--and the
very fate of the Earth.
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Happiness Is.:
Unexpected Answers to Practical Questions
in Curious Times, by Shawn Christopher
Shea, M.D.
From Dr. Jonathan
Dolhenty...
When the author of "Happiness Is."
contacted me by e-mail and asked if I
would be interested in reading and
reviewing his latest book, I felt that I
should warn him in advance regarding my
views of traditional and contemporary
psychiatry, some of which are posted on my
website under the heading "The Psychiatric
Game." So, to be fair and upfront with Dr.
Shawn Christopher Shea, the author of the
book, and provide him with full
disclosure, I sent a rather lengthy
response to him, outlining my
philosophical positions about the theory
and practice of psychiatry, about the
concept of "mental illness" as usually
defined, and my personal opinions
regarding various "psychotherapies."
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How Do You
Compare?: 12 Simple Tests to Discover
Hidden Truths About Your Personality, by
Andrew N. Williams
From Dr. Jonathan
Dolhenty...
Ordinarily, I don't read and review
self-improvement books. I've read quite a
few them in the past and found most of
them wanting. Sure, now and then a decent
self-help book will come off the press and
even I have found it helpful. Most of
them, however, are too much the same and
intended to either make the author a lot
of money or create a new fad, with some
self-promoting guru raking in the fame and
fortune
So, when I was offered the opportunity
to review How Do You Compare?, I
was hesitant. I wasn't sure I'd be
interested in what still another author
had to say about improving oneself. But my
curiosity was peaked when I learned that
the book included twelve simple tests
which were based on more complicated tests
which had actually been developed and
tested themselves by experts in the field
of experimental psychology. Since I have a
background in testing, evaluation, and
quantitative analysis, plus have taken a
number of courses in psychology at both
the undergraduate and graduate level, I
decided, what the heck, I'd read the book
and maybe even write a review about
it.
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Midlife Crisis
at 30:
How the
Stakes Have Changed for a New
Generation
-- and What to Do about It,
by Lia Macko
and Kerry Rubin
From Dr. Jonathan
Dolhenty...
It might strike one as rather odd that
I, a committed member of the male gender
with his feet firmly planted in the
category of senior citizen, should be
reviewing a book that is more or less
intended for the young female member of
the present generation whose feet are
barely planted on the ground. But
sometimes one is asked to do what appears
at first to be somewhat strange, which
later turns out to be both an interesting
and insightful encounter.
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