What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement

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Title What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 1994
Authors Seligman, M. E. P.
Publisher Knopf
Keywords depression, self-esteem
Notes depression"It is a disturbing idea that depressed people see reality correctly while nondepressed people distort reality in a self-serving way. As a therapist I was trained to believe that it is my job to help a depressed patient to feel both happier and see the world more clearly. I am supposed to be the agent of happiness as well as the agent of truth. But maybe truth and happiness antagonize each other. Perhaps what we have considered good therapy for a depressed patient merely nurtures benign illusions, making the patient think that her world is better than it actually is." (p. 199) self-esteem"To put it exactly, I believe that low self-esteem is an epiphenomenon, a mere reflection that your commerce with the world is going badly." (p. 241)
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