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

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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.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “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.”

  — Library Journal

• “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.”

  — Booklist

• “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