Know Your Mind: Everyday Emotional and Psychological Problems and How to Overcome Them

by Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman

Provides "self-diagnosis tools and tests, when to seek professional help, simple plans for staying well, comprehensive list of resources, special section for children"--Dust jacket.

Genres: Self Help, Psychology

380 pages, Hardcover

First published October 5, 2010

About the author

Daniel Freeman is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Medical Research Council (MRC) Senior Clinical Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University. One of the United Kingdom's leading clinical psychologists, he is a Fellow of University College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Reviews

[Wouter]

I should have read the first few pages before buying the book! That'll teach me. The title deceives - a lot - as I was expecting a book about... well, the mind, and how it works. Instead, I've got mostly chapters devoted to a specific psychological issue (anxiety, anger, addiction, ...) but none of the first few sentences explain in detail how these things appear in our mind. Yes there's an explanation: 2 lines, and the rest of the chapter devoted to self-assesment, and symptoms.

Every advice on every issue is largely the same: eat more healthy, exercise more often, allow happy thoughts to sip through and write down what you feel. Book done...

[Erika]

This is a solid book, grounded in CBT, for dealing with the ordinary challenges that plague all of us or our loved ones from time to time, stress (in all its forms, work stress, people stress, food stress), anxiety, sleep problems of varying sorts, mood swings, grief, etc. It's not about personalty disorders or serious psychiatric conditions, but rather about mental health in an ordinary sense, like physical health, how to avoid getting the flu, what to do when you have the flu, that sort of thing. Solid, very solid.