Health and Happiness: A Holistic Approach

By Julius M. Rogina and Robert W. Wildman II

This book, for me, Robert W. Wildman II, began at a time when, for some rather unique geographic and personal reasons, I found myself unable to continue with a long-term scientific project in which I had been engaged. Looking for some scientific/literary contribution I might make under those circumstances, I found myself frequently visiting the psychology section of a bookstore in a mall near where I was temporarily residing. A review of the shelves of ?pop? psychology books revealed to me two things. First, all of the authors had and gave ?the answer,? typically a rather simple and unitary answer, to the emotional and mental problems of the reader. And second, all of these answers were different! Well, it just so happens that I received my clinical training at Georgia State University in the early seventies. While there, I went through all three of the major training programs. These were the psychotherapy training program, the behavior modification sequence, and the marriage and family program. There were also, I would add just for the sake of completeness, courses on psychological testing. Anyone at all familiar with the different schools of psychology will recognize that being exposed to such radically different ways of looking at mental problems and the even more radically different ways of going about trying to deal with them, all at the same time, would be a truly mind-blowing experience for a young graduate student. And it was! For various reasons, I feel fortunate to have survived. But now is not the time to go into all that. What my clinical training did teach me was that any problem or condition can be analyzed and understood in a variety of ways. There are also a number of treatments that may be useful. If what I learned is correct, and I obviously believe that it is or I wouldn't have taken pen in hand, then it must follow that there is no single and simple solution to all of these problems. Shouldn't, I wondered, people be made aware of some of the basic information that is available from a variety of resources and traditions regarding their mental health, as well as their physical health, and how they might improve their own adjustment to life? Over the years, I've been impressed by and appreciative of the efforts of professionals in various fields to explain to lay persons like myself some of the basic principles of their areas of expertise. Might I be able to do this for clinical psychology, particularly as it relates to that issue with which we are all nowadays so concerned, health? The answer was that I would try.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1490760792
• ISBN13: 9781490760797
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 11.0"