REVIEW: "The psychology of bad habits," Richard O'Connor

You do not know how to handle finances and prioritize? Suffer from excessive stubbornness and perfectionism? Smoking and fond of gambling? If you are not perfect, it does not mean that you are hopeless. Get rid of the most persistent bad habits will help the therapist with 30 years of experience.

Richard O'Connor

Therapist with 30 years experience and author of popular books on the treatment of depression, happiness, and bad habits. Former director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health - Medical Center who specializes in mental disorders. At this time in private practice: offices in Connecticut and New York, as well as advice on the phone and via Skype.

What this book

Based on 30 years experience of the therapist, the author suggests ways of getting rid of the most persistent bad habits - from those with whom you're desperate to fight.

Some of them you may have already written off on a "bad" character, the other - on the external circumstances. However, even when habits do not go too far, they make every day feel a sense of guilt and eat off a piece of self-esteem. You are trying to deal with them, but, having suffered several (more often - many) failures give up.

But there is a solution! If you are not perfect, it does not mean that you are hopeless.

Many studies in the field of psychology and neuroscience has shown that the brain changes and develops throughout life. Forming good habits - is a skill that can be purchased as well as the ability to play tennis or typing on a computer keyboard. At the same time it is very important to choose the most successful strategy when working on the problem.

We need a wise, calm and resourceful pilot, able to take everything under control. At the same time we have to find a man inside ourselves.

This book will be useful

All those who at times is the worst enemy of himself, who is no stranger to

• inability to start looking for a new job or break off a bad relationship;
• inability to handle finances;
• inability to prioritize;
• excessive persistence;
• perfectionism;
• fatigue from processing;
• inability to express themselves;
• inattention and cruelty to others;
• choice role of a martyr;
• procrastination;
• chronic delays;
• inability to ask for help;
• inability to relax;
• poor sleep;
• increased anxiety;
• overeating;
• sedentary;
• neglect their own health;
• smoking;
• alcoholism;
• Internet addiction;
• video game addiction;
• gambling;
• conflictness;
• penchant for dangerous driving;
• tendency to spoil everything just when all is well.

All these models are self-destructive behavior are from the subconscious, so are often beyond our control. Guilt and remorse will not help here.

The author proposes to go the other way - to determine the scenario that you are following it. And then with the help of exercises to form new habits that will supplant destructive.

About format

The book "The Psychology of bad habits" is divided into chapters devoted to specific scenarios of behavior. Each exercise is to work on the problem.

You can go directly to the chapter that solves your problem. But to better understand the behavior of people, the book will be useful to read them fully. The author often refers to scientific theories and psychological terms. But always with an explanation. In fact, this information, along with numerous examples from life, is more like an illustration.

Read the book there?

Of course. We all want to be happy. This book will tell you how to be a clear mind and a good emotional shape, and to do it is not under the lash, and learning to enjoy life on a whole new level.

"The psychology of bad habits," Richard O'Connor

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