Seven Principles of Good Mental Health by Windy Dryden

Seven Principles of Good Mental Health by Windy Dryden

In this book, Professor Dryden outlines seven core principles that form the basis of good mental health. Beginning with the importance of taking personal responsibility, he then discusses four attitudes that will keep you mentally healthy in the face of life's adversities. Since an important part of good mental health is the capacity to experience 'healthy negative emotions' about life's adversities, Professor Dryden takes care to clarify this principle. Finally, Professor Dryden presents a realistic outlook on personal change and lists a number of steps you can follow to achieve and maintain good mental health.

Windy Dryden is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London and is in part-time independent practice. His interests are in REBT, very brief interventions and promoting self-help.

Professor Dryden has written or edited over 235 books.

Walter J. Matweychuk, Ph.D., is in full-time clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA and trains doctoral students in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He has worked with Drs. Ellis and Beck and is well informed in the similarities and important differences between these two pioneering forms of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. He maintains a private practice and is an adjunct professor in applied psychology at New York University where he teaches Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to graduate students. He is co-author, with Windy Dryden, of Overcoming Your Addictions and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: A Newcomer's Guide. To learn more about Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, go to: REBTDoctor.com

Windy Dryden, Ph.D, is in part-time clinical and consultative practice and is an international authority on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has worked in psychotherapy for more than 40 years and is the author and editor of over 215 books.