"Over decades of psychotherapeutic work, Deary has witnessed the theater of change: how ordinary people get stuck, struggle with new circumstances, and finally transform for the better. He is keenly aware that novelists, poets, philosophers, and theologians have grappled with these experiences for far longer than psychologists. Drawing on his own personal experience and a ... range of literary, philosophical, and cultural sources, Deary has produced a ... portrait of the human condition"--Amazon.com.
Come vivere Serie
Questa serie si addentra nelle profondità della psicologia umana, esplorando le nostre abitudini radicate e la nostra resistenza al cambiamento. Offre prospettive illuminanti su come possiamo mettere in discussione attivamente i nostri schemi comportamentali consolidati. Scopri il potere rinfrescante della trasformazione e abbraccia nuovi inizi. Questa raccolta funge da guida per un modo di vivere migliore, infuso di coraggio, umorismo e scopo.
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