Managing Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide

by Gillian Butler, Tony Hope, Tony Hope Gillian Butler

Book Overview

Self-help and personal development books take one of two approaches: they focus either on private life (how to improve relationships, how to overcome depression) or on work and professional skills (how to manage time effectively, how to cope with the boss). Now two leading clinicians, Gillian Butler and Tony Hope, argue that for real psychological well being, you must combine these approaches--integrating techniques of management with those of psychology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195103793
• ISBN13: 9780195103793
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.4" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

This book changed my life!

Great educational read. Stimulating. Straight forward and easy to read chapters. This book helped me through one of the worse times in my life.

Must have book

this book has changed me inside out. I wished I had read this in my teenage years.

Excellent advice for those seeking relief from depression

I just picked this up at a local book store when I was very depressed, and it was just what I needed! The chapters on depression and anxiety are full of strategies and, dare I say, remedies for the depression illness. I've read a couple other books on similar therapies such as cognitive therapy, but have to recommend this one most of all. I especially found the section on what causes depression very insightful. One of these is not living your life to match with your values. How true! Although my values are God, wife, family, home, I've lived my life single til now as a wanderer with no direction to achieve those things I value so much. Now that I understand the rut that I'm in and how I got here, I'm going to make the changes necessary to be happy again!

Comprehensively covers many problems people experience.

This book offers practical approaches to helping a person solve his own problems. I read it through when I first purchased it (1996). Now I refer to it from time to time when I feel I need help with a particular matter. This book is easy to read, and it explains things in a professional manner for better understanding. The book offers practical techniques for solving many common and some difficult problems people experience. Teenagers can benefit reading this book because it addresses real problems which they are likely to face with real answers and stresses personal accountability for the answer to most of life's problems. I recommend it highly to everyone. It's a great book!

excellent, highly readable; a fine overview

This is one of the best books of the type I've ever read. For someone who is depressed or otherwise searching for some truly excellent and comprehensive guidance in simply living a fuller, happier life, this is one of the books I'd suggest. Very readable and very down-to-earth.