Happy at Last The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy

Happiness has been written about by everyone from the Dalai Lama (The Art of Happiness) to Daniel Gilbert (Stumbling on Happiness), but inHappy At LastRichard O'Connor takes a fresh look at what happiness is, why we are happy (or not) and how we can stay happy. How? He says we can rewire our brain to be more receptive to happiness by learning to control how our minds work. Drawing on the latest scientific and psychological research, and filled with practical advice and exercises,Happy At Lastis the definitive guide to understanding: The core skills that we need to feel fulfilled in today's world Strategies for increasing happiness Techniques for keeping sadness and stress at bay.Richard O'Connor makes it possible to be, finally,Happy At Last!

RICHARD O’CONNOR, M.S.W., Ph.D., is the author of Undoing Depression and Undoing Perpetual Stress. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, a private, nonprofit mental health clinic serving Litchfield County, Connecticut, overseeing the work of twenty mental health professionals in treating almost a thousand patients per year. He is currently a practicing psychotherapist with offices in Connecticut and New York.