Happiness Is for Everyone: A Prescription for Personal and Relationship Contentment

By James Shoot

We live in a culture that touts its technological advancements, extols the value of exploring and developing the individual, and is the envy of other cultures on the planet. Yet this same culture experiences such intellectual and emotional suffering that 30 percent of the population consumes antidepressant and antianxiety medication. A presidential commission on mental health in America reported that, "America's mental health service delivery system is in shambles." We advertise violence in our social media, we seek relationships which culminate in a divorce rate of over 50 percent, and we support business practices which value the desires of the few while sacrificing the needs of the many. Happiness Is for Everyone explores the sources of our individual and collective suffering and the actions that each of us must take to reverse this ever-increasing trend. Researched and written by a psychiatrist with thirty-six years of experience, the author is deeply invested in the science and art of medicine, psychotherapy, and spiritual and religious disciplines. This book provides a synthesis of the knowledge and skill necessary to acquire happiness through our relationship with others and with ourselves. Though this process is challenging and lifelong--there is no quick fix--it offers each of us the opportunity to evaluate what we are doing and how we can knowledgeably improve the future for ourselves and future generations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680972170
• ISBN13: 9781680972177
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"