
Manage Your Mind
The Mental Fitness Guide
Oxford University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 4. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-19-852772-5 (ISBN)
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Description
Just as simple measures - regular exercise, a sensible diet - keep your body fit, there are attitudes and skills you can develop to build a healthy mind. In this book two leaders in their fields, one a psychiatrist and one a psychologist, set out strategies that will stretch, strengthen, and tune your mind, to help you cope with the rigours of everyday life.
The mind is a powerful tool, but without the right training, your moods, thoughts, and behaviour can sabotage your goals and cause depression and anxiety. Manage your Mind shows you how to keep mentally fit - how to tap into your mind's power - so you can enjoy your life to the fullest. Through the powerful, tested techniques they clearly outline, Gillian Butler and Tony Hope will teach you to:
* Build self-confidence
* Overcome anxiety and depression
* Take control of your present and future
* Establish and maintain fulfilling relationships with family, friends, and co-workers
* Free yourself from fears and persistent worries
* Break bad habits
* Relieve stress
* Develop your full potential
* Manage your self and your time
* Clarify your goals and values
Manage Your Mind also includes specific, up-to-date information on how to make decisions, strengthen your memory, stop smoking, sleep better, recover from alcohol abuse, and more.
Feeling good is not just a question of addressing a few problems but depends on the development of positive attitudes and skills that can help you to make the most of your opportunities. 'Manage Your Mind' is a remarkable guide which will help you to lead a more enjoyable and productive life.
The mind is a powerful tool, but without the right training, your moods, thoughts, and behaviour can sabotage your goals and cause depression and anxiety. Manage your Mind shows you how to keep mentally fit - how to tap into your mind's power - so you can enjoy your life to the fullest. Through the powerful, tested techniques they clearly outline, Gillian Butler and Tony Hope will teach you to:
* Build self-confidence
* Overcome anxiety and depression
* Take control of your present and future
* Establish and maintain fulfilling relationships with family, friends, and co-workers
* Free yourself from fears and persistent worries
* Break bad habits
* Relieve stress
* Develop your full potential
* Manage your self and your time
* Clarify your goals and values
Manage Your Mind also includes specific, up-to-date information on how to make decisions, strengthen your memory, stop smoking, sleep better, recover from alcohol abuse, and more.
Feeling good is not just a question of addressing a few problems but depends on the development of positive attitudes and skills that can help you to make the most of your opportunities. 'Manage Your Mind' is a remarkable guide which will help you to lead a more enjoyable and productive life.
Reviews / Votes
Manage Your Mind is well-written and contains a wealth of psycho-education and practical strategies... Highly recommended. * The Psychologist * It is well written, easy to read and understand - and one of the most interesting books I have read in this field. * Nursing Standard * Manage Your Mind delivers up-to-date and detailed strategies on keeping mentally healthy. Healthcare counsellors may find this book a useful reference on a range of client problems. Clients may find it valuable in providing supplementary information during of after counselling, particularly in helping with a grasp of therapeutic ideas. * Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, *More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
People of all ages and all walks of life who want to sharpen up their mental fitness. Useful for adolescents coping with teenage depression, students wanting to pass exams, adults wanting more fulfilling work and personal lives; people facing the challenges of getting older, and everyone in between.
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
numerous line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
861 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852772-5 (9780198527725)
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Persons
Gillian Butler is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She works as a consultant clinical psychologist for the NHS and for Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre. She has a special clinical interest in the use of CBT during recovery from traumatic experiences in childhood and runs training workshops on a wide variety of topics relevant to practitioners of CBT, in this country and overseas.
Tony Hope is a psychiatrist and also Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He divides his time between clinical work, research, teaching and writing. His clinical interests focus particularly on the use of cognitive techniques both to overcome difficulties and to increase happiness. His other books include Medical Ethics: A very Short Introduction also published by Oxford.
Tony Hope is a psychiatrist and also Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He divides his time between clinical work, research, teaching and writing. His clinical interests focus particularly on the use of cognitive techniques both to overcome difficulties and to increase happiness. His other books include Medical Ethics: A very Short Introduction also published by Oxford.
Author
Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre and Department of Clinical Psychology, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Professor of Medical EthicsETHOX, University of Oxford
Content
INTRODUCTION; PART I - TWO PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING MENTAL FITNESS; PART II - THE SEVEN BASIC SKILLS; PART III - HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS; PART IV - THE TWIN ENEMIES OF GOOD MOOD - ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION; PART V - TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE; PART VI - MIND AND BODY; PART VII - THE WORKING MIND