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Alexander Riezebeek • 2 cards
In the arena of self-knowledge, psychotherapy may be the single most useful intervention of the last 200 years. It is a tool and, like all tools, it finds its purpose in helping us to overcome an inborn weakness and to extend our capacities beyond those originally gifted to us by nature.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
What our culture does teach us, quite well, is how to dismiss and avoid emotions. The Change Triangle is a challenge to this cultural norm.
Hilary Jacobs Hendel • It's Not Always Depression
What difference does their approval or disapproval truly make to who you are? All such unexamined assumptions cause a great deal of negative emotion, much unnecessary unhappiness.
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
prided himself on not having many ups and downs and for never losing his temper.
Robert Glover • No More Mr. Nice Guy
Psychology
Adlerian psychology is a form of thought, a philosophy that is diametrically opposed to nihilism.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
The core of the theory was that maladaptive thoughts lead to maladaptive emotions, which in turn drive abnormal behavior.