Vitality : a psychiatrist's answer to life's problems / / Richard Esser.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 240 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- What does a psychiatrist know about the best of living?
- Getting a kick out of living
- Turning living around, eight thumbnail sketches
- Tom, Cus, Floyd and me
- Turning point
- Detective work
- Call it magic
- Damage done
- Clear-sightedness
- A head full of numbers
- What worked
- Searching for optimism in the wilderness of psychiatry
- Learning basic lessons in Harlem
- The ABCs of successful helping
- Affection
- Putting-oneself-in-another's-shoes
- The asking-for-help-and-the-giving-of-help
- Nuts-and-bolts questions people need answers to about the good and bad in helping
- The expert in living
- The real and the false rewards
- Loving
- Friendship
- Learning
- Work
- Idealism
- A private life
- Creativity, courage, initiative, dynamism, achievement and self-fulfillment
- The vital process
- The crux of living : turning craziness into creativity
- The wonder and the pitfall in growing up
- Coming to grips with the scariest part of ourselves
- The key question of prevention.