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What You Can Change and What You Can't (Abridged): The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement Audiobook
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In the climate of self-improvement that pervades our culture, there is an overwhelming amount of information about treatments for everything from alcohol abuse to sexual dysfunction. Much of this information is exaggerated if not wholly inaccurate. As a result, people who try to change their own troubling conditions often experience the frustration of mixed success—success followed by a relapse, or outright failure.
To address this confusion, Martin Seligman has meticulously analyzed the most authoritative scientific research on treatments for alcoholism, anxiety, weight loss, anger, depression, and a range of phobias and obsessions to discover what is the most effective way to address each condition. He frankly reports what does not work, and pinpoints the techniques and therapies that work best for each condition, discussing why they work and how you can use them to make long lasting change. Inside you’ll discover the four natural healing factors for recovering from alcoholism; the vital difference between overeating and being overweight; the four therapies that work for depression, the pros and cons of anger—and much more.
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"To review this book in depth would be to reveal some very personal information, and that isn't going to happen. I'll leave it at this: I find Seligman to be very reasonable and intellectually honest. This book has been very helpful to me."
— Mark (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Psychologist Seligman here examines common psychological disorders according to their biological and societal, or learned, components…Mostly jargon-free prose complement[s] Seligman’s comprehensive, unformulaic discussion…Direct, instructive, and nonreductive, Seligman’s observations and theories are positive, realistic, and sound.”
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“This extremely well-written book, while aimed at the lay reader, is appropriate for students and professionals as well. Highly recommended for both academic and public libraries.”
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“The subtitle of this psychological self-help adviser seems to promise impossibly more than could be delivered. But Seligman is so much more sensible and lucid than most self-help gurus that he encourages thinking that, yes, this is all we can say—and do—right now about changing undesirable behaviors…He advocates techniques that have demonstrably achieved lasting change or—what is far more likely—reduction in the frequency of undesired behavior. He bases his advice in sound research and highly educated inference, which means that his book constantly rewards anyone interested in individual psychology…Absolutely splendid.”
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“Provocative overview by Seligman of human psychological and behavioral characteristics influence on adult character and worldview…Readable, solidly rooted in research, and offering—for the most part—a hopeful message.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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Pablo Flores, 5/12/2021
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" I not satisfied with the audiobook I was expecting more, but sadly this is only a summary of the different treatments available for people who are suffering from different mental disorders.The author needs to describe more in detail,he needs to understand that not everyone listening to his audiobook is a professional "
— Pablo Flores , 4/25/2017 -
" An interesting look at genes "
— Jim, 12/7/2013 -
" Rational analysis of methods of self improvement. With charts! "
— mybluesunset, 11/14/2013 -
" This is mislabeled as a "guide to self-improvement." it's pretty broad but has some good observations that seem to be backed up by Seligman's career experiences about what's changeable/not. "
— Jen, 11/12/2013 -
" With all of the self-improvement and pop psychology books available, I found this a refreshing look at what emotional and behavioral factors we can change and which ones we just can't. "
— Barb, 10/3/2013 -
" That it's better to go to the research data than it is to listen to public opinion. "
— Chip.black, 3/18/2013 -
" Awesome book! I learned so much from it! "
— Penny, 11/3/2012 -
" Much plain as day wisdom here with scientific back up. "
— Tess, 12/27/2011 -
" Rational analysis of methods of self improvement. With charts! "
— mybluesunset, 2/5/2011 -
" This is mislabeled as a "guide to self-improvement." it's pretty broad but has some good observations that seem to be backed up by Seligman's career experiences about what's changeable/not. "
— Jen, 2/25/2009 -
" That it's better to go to the research data than it is to listen to public opinion. "
— Chip.black, 7/18/2008 -
" With all of the self-improvement and pop psychology books available, I found this a refreshing look at what emotional and behavioral factors we can change and which ones we just can't. "
— Barb, 10/10/2007
About Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD, the Robert A. Fox professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, works on positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, ethnopolitical conflict, and optimism. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. He is the director of the Positive Psychology Network and scientific director of Foresight, Inc., a testing company that predicts success in various walks of life. He was the director of the Clinical Training Program of the University of Pennsylvania for fourteen years and was named a distinguished practitioner by the National Academies of Practice. In 1995, he received the Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Contributions to Science and Practice.