Self-Change: Strategies for Solving Personal Problems

By Michael J. Mahoney

Book Overview

The subject of this book is how to acquire the skill, or set of skills, that may be most important to your enjoyment and sense of accomplishment in adult life: the ability to deal effectively with crisis, change, and stress. Problem-solving skills can be learned by virtually everyone, and by doing so, the individual can change unacceptable behavior patterns. Michael Mahoney outlines a sequence of seven specific steps to help clarify a given problem, its causes, and its solution. Each step is developed in a separate chapter with appropriate examples and case histories. The strategy is almost infinitely flexible, and can be applied to such diverse situations as controlling anxiety, giving up smoking, and relieving sleep disorders.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393000672
• ISBN13: 9780393000672
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A potential for change

The language Mahoney speaks is not the language of psychotherapy. It's the language of a friendly person who cares about you and shares his knowledge to help you in getting improvements in your life. It's not important if you have simply the problem of smoking or eating too much or psychological problems of a more complex nature. The book can be helpful even for diseases with an organic base. Mahoney teach you, throughout a method which is based on the one used in scientific research, to analyze your feelings, try to understand the causes of your problems and developing strategies to get improvements. I've done psychotherapy before but it didn't helped me because the relationship in this case is always a "patient/doctor" one. I found the wrong person, okay, but I reached a point where I understood I had to take the situation in my hands. It was already an improvement. Then I found this book. I started using it, and I obtained results. This is a book written by a psychologist which is also a friend. A friend you can trust. A rare thing nowadays.