How to Be Your Own Best Friend

ISBN: 0425286398

Author: Newman, Mildred

Condition: Used

What is real, lasting happiness? How does one achieve it? And why are so many people holding themselves back? At the heart of this profound, simple, beautiful book is the wisdom of Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz, married psychoanalysts who encourage readers to both love themselves and to confront lifes hardest truths. A classic for more than three decades, How to Be Your Own Best Friend has already changed millions of lives. Now, open up your mind, and let it change yours.Praise for How to Be Your Own Best FriendI want to tell you that its magic, but the whole point of the book is that there is no magic. So instead let me simply say that I cant live without it.-Nora EphronA wonderful prescription for the blahs . . . an antidote to weariness, discouragement or loneliness.-Los Angeles TimesWhat the Berkowitzes unearthed . . . is a too-often-forgotten form of human intercourse called getting to know me.-Chicago TribuneA kind of psychiatric pep talk . . . directed at people who [are] learning how to operate themselves.-The New York TimesSeductively jargon-free, presented in neat question-and-answer format.-Houston Chronicle