This book examines a seemingly simple and absolutely essential topic: learning how to enjoy every aspect of your life on a daily basis.
All of us look for happiness, well-being, and positivity throughout our lives, but for most people these goals are abstract and the processes established to achieve them ambiguous. The Seven Sources of Pleasure in Life: Making Way for the Upside in the Midst of Modern Demands focuses attention upon the concrete, specific, and everyday sources of pleasure that are within the grasp of almost everyone.

Prolific author Luciano L'Abate, PhD, ABEPP, examines at all kinds of pleasures, investigating where we find them, why they appeal to us, and what benefits they provide in terms of both mental and physical health. He explains how to increase our sensitivity to everyday opportunities for pleasure, and then gives tangible techniques to focus upon these moments in order to fully experience them. The author employs personal memories from his childhood in Italy, more recent stories from his travels abroad, and the findings of most recent scientific research on the benefits of pleasure-seeking to further illustrate his points.

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This book examines a seemingly simple and absolutely essential topic: learning how to enjoy every aspect of your life on a daily basis.

Foreword by Edward W. L. Smith
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Elements and Meanings of Pleasure and Displeasure
1 Arts and Creativity: Observing, Studying, Watching, and Producing
2 Avocations: Doing Whatever You Like When You Want To
3 Being, Doing, and Having: The Triangle of Life
4 Food: For Survival and for Enjoyment
5 Music Does Not Need to Be Loud to Be Enjoyable
6 Play Is Just as Important as Work
7 The Body: Sensuality, Sensibility, Sexuality, and Sex
Conclusion: Moderation, Self-Control, and Self-Monitoring
Notes
Index

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"Dr. L'Abate is well known for his serious academic writings, including his many methodologically-sound research studies for which he has won awards from our national psychological association. Therefore, it was a delightful surprise to see that not only can he write in a more easy-to-read popular style, but he can also interject humor and funny jokes in this book. Instead of accepting somewhat abstract notions of happiness, well-being, and positivity, Luciano teaches us about the many specific and available sources of pleasure that one can photograph and record. I recommend this book to all mature adults as well as to our mental health professionals who might avoid professional burn-out from their stressed lives by adding new sources of pleasure into their daily routines."
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This book examines a seemingly simple and absolutely essential topic: learning how to enjoy every aspect of your life on a daily basis.
A great variety of references, ranging from The New Yorker to The Economist

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780313395796
Publisert
2011-06-02
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
567 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
264

Forfatter
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Biografisk notat

Luciano L'Abate, PhD, ABEPP, is professor emeritus of psychology at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Author or coauthor of more than 300 papers, chapters, and book reviews in professional and scientific journals, L'Abate is also author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of over 50 books.