How to understand the role the past plays in your present and live a fulfilling, emotionally health life
Happiness is a loaded term that means different things to different people. To some, it might mean life satisfaction, to others, a fleeting moment of joy. Rather than seeking to be happy, Oliver James encourages us to cultivate our emotional health. Outlining the five elements of good emotional health--insightfulness, a strong sense of self, fluid relationships, authenticity, and playfulness in our approach to life--he offers strategies for optimizing each characteristic to live more...
How to understand the role the past plays in your present and live a fulfilling, emotionally health life
A fascinating expose of office culture, in the style of the bestselling Affluenza, from popular psychologist Oliver James. The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity, and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this fascinating expose, Oliver James reveals the murky underside of modern office life. With cutting-edge research and eye-opening interviews, he highlights the nasty practices that propel people to the top and shows how industries and cultures are fostering this behavior He then...
A fascinating expose of office culture, in the style of the bestselling Affluenza, from popular psychologist Oliver James. The modern workin...
There is currently an epidemic of "affluenza" throughout the world--an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses--that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver James traveled around the world to try and find out why. He discovered how, despite very different cultures and levels of wealth, affluenza is spreading. Cities he visited include Sydney, Singapore, Moscow, Copenhagen, New York, and Shanghai, and in each place he interviewed several groups of people in the hope of finding out not only why this is...
There is currently an epidemic of "affluenza" throughout the world--an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses--that has resulted in huge incr...
A groundbreaking and practical method for managing dementia that will allow both sufferer and carer to maintain the highest possible quality of life, throughout every stage of Alzheimer's Dementia is a little-understood and currently incurable illness, but this guide shows how much can be done to maximize the quality of life for people with the condition. A person with dementia will experience random and increasingly frequent memory blanks relating to recent events; feelings, however, remain intact, as do memories of past events, and both can be used in a special way to substitute for...
A groundbreaking and practical method for managing dementia that will allow both sufferer and carer to maintain the highest possible quality of lif...
A leading child psychologist argues that children under three do not need training it's gettingone's head straight as a parent that is important
As a mother, are you comfortable in your skin? Want to know how best to be a working or stay-at-home mother? Babies have very simple needs, yet many parents are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how to meet them. Drawing on extensive interviews and the latest clinical research, this bookidentifies three basic types of mother: the Hugger, the Organiser, and the Fleximum. Outlining the benefits and pitfalls of each, this book shows you how to...
A leading child psychologist argues that children under three do not need training it's gettingone's head straight as a parent that is important
In the bestselling 'Affluenza', world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping the English-speaking world. Now 'The Selfish Capitalist' provides more detailed substantiation for the claims he has already made.
In the bestselling 'Affluenza', world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping the English-speaking world. Now ...
Between the 1950s and the end of the 1970s depression mushroomed, especially among the poor and young women. This book shows that what depressed them and the rest of us was a rampant keeping up with the Joneses and a gender rancour between the sexes that may be the worst the world has ever seen.
Between the 1950s and the end of the 1970s depression mushroomed, especially among the poor and young women. This book shows that what depressed them ...
Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we are and how we behave. Nurture, in effect, shapes our very nature. James combines the latest scientific research with fascinating interviews to show that understanding your past is the first step to...
Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overw...
-Love Bombing- is a radical new method for resetting the emotional thermostats of troubled children and their parents, setting them on a much happier trajectory. It is simple to do, easily explained, and works for both severe and mild problems from aged three to the early teens.
Each chapter will be about Love Bombing a specific difficulty that children often experience, illustrated with cases drawn from real life. Problems described include temper tantrums, refusing to go to school, sleep problems, hyperactivity, clinging, and shyness. -The method is explained as simply as...
-Love Bombing- is a radical new method for resetting the emotional thermostats of troubled children and their parents, setting them on a much happier ...
