Water, Snow, Water: Constructive Living for Mental Health 9780824839178
“You can’t be happy all the time. You can’t feel comfortable all the time. You can’t have the feelings you want when you
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Questions and Answers about Constructive Living (CL)
2. Getting Along with Life
3. Shinks
4. Common Sense
5. Fleeing from Responsibility for Behavior
6. An Alternative to Psychotherapy
7. Psychotherapy as Myth
8. On Feelings
9. In Praise of Pain
10. Whirling Dust
11. Reflections on Mind
12. Attention
13. Paralysis by Possibility— Unipossible and Multipossible Situations
14. Under New Management
15. Contentment
16. Backups, Throwaway Tissues, Road Kill, and Resources— Self-focus in America
17. On Being Natural
18. Some Truths
19. Reflections on Interpersonal Relations
20. Constructive Living Assignments
21. Constructive Living Tales
22. Constructive Living Maxims
23. Constructive Living Poem
Postscript—Healing America
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