Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient r…
Why are humans, who are motivated by self-preservation, also motivated to engage in behaviors that threaten and even extinguish their existence? The present work has given thought to this question and examined the phenomenon of self-destruction through the perspectives of empiri…
Draws on psychological insights to explain how to develop healthier financial perspectives, identifying childhood and cultural influences that shape the way people think about and manage money, and discusses strategies for overcoming bad habits.
Most of us have complicated, if not downright dysfunctional, relationships with money. As Drs. Brad and Ted Klontz, a father-and-son team of pioneers the emerging field of in financial psychology explain, our disordered relationships with money don't stem from a lack of knowledg…
We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again--whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, dieting for the umpteenth try, or acting on any of a range of bad habits we just can't seem to shake. In "Rewire," renowned psychothe…
We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again-whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, dieting for the umpteenth try, or acting on any of a range of bad habits we just can't seem to shake. In Rewire, renowned psychotherap…
A practicing psychotherapist discusses why it is so hard to break bad habits and offers new ways to make lasting changes to end procrastinating, overeating, passive aggressiveness, and other self-destructive behaviors.
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A practicing psychotherapist discusses why it is so hard to break bad habits and offers new ways to make lasting changes to end procrastinating, overeating, passive aggressiveness, and other self-destructive behaviors.
We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again-whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, dieting for the umpteenth try, or acting on any of a range of bad habits we just can't seem to shake. In Rewire, renowned psychotherap…