A Course in Happiness by Mardi Horowitz

A Course in Happiness by Mardi Horowitz

"Wise counsel from one of America's most respected psychiatrists." -Irvin Yalom, author of Staring at the Sun and When Nietzsche Wept, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University


For many, getting in touch with that elusive thing called "happiness" is rarely simple-and achieving any kind of lasting happiness can feel like an insur-mountable challenge. Perhaps what we need is an education on the subject . . . A Course in Happiness. In this book, Mardi Horowitz draws on more than forty years of experience as a practicing psychiatrist to provide readers with just this.

According to Dr. Horowitz, happiness is essentially a by-product of self-knowledge; in order to be happy, we need to understand who we truly are. In A Course in Happiness, he details a deeply rewarding course in mastering the three levels of self-understanding that underlie happiness-

Integration- the ability to assemble all the pieces of one's self into a whole, complete, understood, and respected "me."

Intimacy- the capacity to remain closely connected to the warmth of relationships with family, friends, colleagues, and others in a social community.

Integrity- the insight to know which of one's values are most dear and which are lower in priority-and then to be true to what is the most important, even in the midst of conflict.

A Course in Happiness offers a road map for achieving genuine and lasting contentment.

Horowitz, Mardi J.: - Mardi J. Horowitz is an expert in the areas of stress, loss, traumatic experiences, personality development, and change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He developed and directed the UCSF Center on Stress and Personality and the Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He has received the NIMH Research Scientist Development Award and directed the NIMH Center for the Study of Neuroses at UCSF. He developed and directed the Second Opinion Consultations on Psychotherapy Treatments Program and the Survivors Clinic at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. He has received Lifetime Achievement and Pioneer Awards from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies as well as the Foundations Fund Prize from the APA for outstanding research on the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD.

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ISBN 13	9781585427802
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Titel	A Course in Happiness
Autor	Mardi Horowitz
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-12-24
Seitenanzahl	304
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