Feeling Good

The Science of Well-Being

C Robert Cloninger author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:27th May '04

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Feeling Good cover

This insightful work explores the integration of biomedical and psychosocial approaches to mental health. In Feeling Good, Cloninger shares methods for achieving self-awareness and fulfillment.

The separation of biomedical and psychosocial approaches to mental illness has hindered both research and treatment. In Feeling Good, psychiatrist Robert Cloninger argues that all individuals possess inherent needs for happiness, self-understanding, and love. He presents a pathway toward achieving psychological coherence that fulfills these fundamental human desires. Cloninger emphasizes the importance of self-awareness as a uniquely human trait that can lead to a more meaningful and fulfilling life.

Through 30 years of research and clinical experience, Dr. Cloninger has developed a comprehensive view that integrates findings from both biomedical and psychosocial sciences. Feeling Good offers readers a chance to explore the validity of his perspective, as it is grounded in a non-reductive scientific paradigm. The book details reliable methods for assessing human thought and social relationships, guiding readers along the journey to enhanced self-awareness.

Moreover, practical mental exercises are included to stimulate the growth of self-awareness, supported by data from brain imaging, personality genetics, and longitudinal biopsychosocial studies. Feeling Good is not only valuable for professionals in the mental health field but also appeals to theologians, philosophers, and social scientists, providing contemporary scientific insights into enduring human questions about existence, knowledge, and behavior.

Cloninger, a distinguished US psychiatrist, starts this book with the question, 'why is it so difficult to be happy'? He is critical of conventional scientific psychiatry's approach to the answer to this question, and throughout the book invokes concepts which science finds it difficult to grapple with - like 'coherence'. He ranges with profound insight widely over philosophy and history plus many other sciences, including mathematics, to take an intelligent stab at the central problems of well-being. * Dr Raj Persaud in the British Journal of Psychiatry *
. . . a product of vast erudition . . . radical, comprehensive, audacious, brilliant . . . * PsycCRITIQUES *

ISBN: 9780195051377

Dimensions: 241mm x 163mm x 28mm

Weight: 703g

400 pages