How to Accept Yourself

by Windy Dryden

Here is a guide to accepting yourself, warts and all, with your strengths and weaknesses, rather than constantly striving towards change. It lies at the heart of happiness, because until you accept yourself as the person you are, you cannot be truly content. Windy Dryden uses realistic and straightforward techniques to help anyone who wants to shake off a sense of anxiety, self-doubt and discontent. He offers examples to show you how to put the ideas into practice, to help you make the first necessary step towards happiness.

Genres: Mental Health, Self Help

Paperback

First published September 17, 1999

About the author

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT and has trained with Drs. Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, and Arnold Lazarus.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey, and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Reviews

[Thanos Tsianis · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great introduction to REBT.
It’s pretty much a workbook, with practical exercises and suggestions, guiding you smoothly from the principles of the method to applications and real life clinical examples.
The author, being the pioneer of the method, does a great job deconstructing the concept of self esteem, while also providing a clear framework
1. to become aware of the destructive thinking and emotional patterns that run those who tend to be too harsh on themselves (and others)
2. to recognize the underlying beliefs that cause the self-destructing patterns and how to work on changing them.
Found it really helpful!

[Βασίλης Πιτσιλαδής · Rating 4 out of 5]

ΜΑΘΕ ΝΑ ΑΠΟΔΕΧΕΣΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΕΑΥΤΟ ΣΟΥ
ΑΠΑΝΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΣΤΑ ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΑ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ
Windy Dryden
Κατηγορία: ΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΑ
Εκδότης: ΚΑΣΤΑΝΙΩΤΗΣ, 2010
Αρκετά καλό.
Η αυτοαποδοχή ως τέχνη αποδοχής του εαυτού με τα ελαττώματα και τα δυνατά ή αδύνατα σημεία του αντί της διαρκούς προσπάθειας για αλλαγή και βελτίωση. Ρεαλιστικές και πρακτικές τεχνικές για απαλλαγείτε από το άγχος, τις αμφιβολίες και τη δυσφορία, ώστε να επιτύχετε μια πραγματική και θετική αλλαγή στη ζωή.

[Fran Mullins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for anyone who is as hard on themselves as I am...