Random House New Releases - Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Health - Between May 25, 2012 and June 24, 2013.

Comedy by Henri Bergson

2013-05-22T00:30:00-05:00

Comedy An Essay on Comedy
Written by Henri Bergson

eBook, 272 pages | Doubleday | Literary Criticism - Humor; Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Health; Psychology & Psychiatry - Emotions | $12.99 | May 22, 2013 | 978-0-307-83077-7 (0-307-83077-2)

Henri Bergson — Laughter
George Meredith — An Essay on Comedy

Introduction & Appendix on The Meanings of Comedy by Wylie Sypher

Laughter is a mystery—a mystery which defines man. Brought together in this volume are two classic studies of the nature of laughter and comedy. The great French philosopher Henri Bergson develops, in "Laughter," a profound psychological and philisophic theory of the main springs of comedy—a theory closely related to the doctrine of the élan vital. In his "Essay on Comedy," the English novelist George Meredith discusses the varieties of the comic experience and the social and moral function of comedy.
Together these two major theories go far toward clarifying the mystery of laughter. Wylie Sypher, in his richly documented supplementary essay, places the views of Bergson and Meredith in a large context of speculation on the nature of comedy. The essay reviews important statements of such thinkers as Aristotle, Hobbes, Baudelaire, Freud, Cornford, and others. It serves to give further significance to Bergson and Meredith and to the meaning of comedy itself.

The Tools by Barry Michels

2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00

The Tools 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Self-Help - Personal Growth; Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Health; Business & Economics - Motivational | $16.00 | May 21, 2013 | 978-0-8129-8304-3 (0-8129-8304-1)

“This blew my mind more than anything else I’ve learned this year.”—Dr. Mehmet Oz

“Breakthrough material that ignites your own capacity to transform your life.”—Marianne Williamson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Change can begin right now.

The Tools is a dynamic, results-oriented practice that defies the traditional approach to therapy. Instead of focusing on the past, this groundbreaking method aims to deliver relief from persistent problems and restore control—and hope—to users right away. Every day presents challenges—big and small—that the tools transform into opportunities to bring about bold and dramatic change in your life. These transformative techniques will teach you how to

GET UNSTUCK: Master the things you are avoiding and live in forward motion.
CONTROL ANGER: Free yourself from out-of-control rage and never-ending grudges.
EXPRESS YOURSELF: Learn the secret of true confidence and find your authentic voice.
COMBAT ANXIETY: Stop obsessive worrying and negative thinking.
FIND DISCIPLINE: Activate willpower and make the most of every minute.

For years, Phil Stutz and Barry Michels taught these tools to an exclusive patient base of high-powered executives and creative types. Now their revolutionary practice is available to anyone interested in realizing the full range of their potential. Stutz and Michels want to make your life exceptional—in its resiliency, its productivity, and its experience of real happiness.

Praise for The Tools

“A rapid and streamlined method of self-improvement.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“An ‘open secret’ in Hollywood . . . [Stutz and Michels] have developed a program designed to access the creative power of the unconscious.”—The New Yorker

“These tools are emotional game changers. They do nothing less than deliver you to your best and most powerful self.”—Kathy Freston, author of Quantum Wellness

“Intensely gratifying.”—Self

GET THE TOOLS APP for your phone so the Tools will always be at your fingertips!

Better Than Normal by Dr. Dale Archer

2013-03-12T00:30:00-05:00

Better Than Normal How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
Written by Dr. Dale Archer

A New York Times bestseller that offers a groundbreaking new view of human psychology, showing how eight key traits of human behavior--long perceived as liabilities--can be important hidden strengths

What if the inattentiveness that makes school or work a challenge holds the secret to your future as an entrepreneur? What if the shyness in groups that you hate is the source of deep compassion for others? What if the anxiety and nervousness you often feel can actually help energize you?
Renowned psychiatrist and popular on-air personality Dr. Dale Archer believes that behaviors frequently labeled "ADHD," "bipolar," and "OCD" are often normal human qualities--and he contends that we all experience these and other psychological traits to some extent yet fail to leverage the significant advantages they can offer. Worse, we stigmatize one another for these aspects of our personalities.
In Better Than Normal, Dr. Archer offers an empowering framework for redefining mental health. Drawing on his 20 years of clinical experience, he describes eight traits of human behavior, each of which occurs along a continuum rather than as a simple on-off switch. These are the aspects of our personality that we worry about the most, but these are also the very things that make us distinctive and different. Filled with engaging anecdotes and practical tools to help readers capitalize on their unique characteristics, Better Than Normal offers a new and liberating way to look at ourselves and others.

Live Through This by Sabrina Chapadjiev

2012-09-11T00:30:00-05:00

Live Through This On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev

A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eating disorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers, playwrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroy women artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest and hopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, and the ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art.

With contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy C. Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottleib, and Stephanie Howell.

Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin

2012-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin

In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place.

One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. “Of all the elements of a happy life,” she thought, “my home is the most important.” In a flash, she decided to undertake a new happiness project, and this time, to focus on home.

And what did she want from her home? A place that calmed her, and energized her. A place that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks. Also, while Rubin wanted to be happier at home, she wanted to appreciate how much happiness was there already.

So, starting in September (the new January), Rubin dedicated a school year—September through May—to making her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love.

In The Happiness Project, she worked out general theories of happiness. Here she goes deeper on factors that matter for home, such as possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood. How can she control the cubicle in her pocket? How might she spotlight her family’s treasured possessions? And it really was time to replace that dud toaster.

Each month, Rubin tackles a different theme as she experiments with concrete, manageable resolutions—and this time, she coaxes her family to try some resolutions, as well.

With her signature blend of memoir, science, philosophy, and experimentation, Rubin’s passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire readers to find more happiness in their own lives.

Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin

2012-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin

Happier at Home by Kathe Mazur

2012-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin
Read by Kathe Mazur

Happier at Home by Kathe Mazur

2012-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin
Read by Kathe Mazur

The Tools by Barry Michels

2012-05-29T00:30:00-05:00

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Hardcover, 288 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Self-Help - Personal Growth; Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Health; Business & Economics - Motivational | $25.00 | May 29, 2012 | 978-0-679-64444-6 (0-679-64444-X)

A groundbreaking book about personal growth that presents a uniquely effective set of five tools that bring about dynamic change—as seen on The Dr. Oz Show

The Tools offers a solution to the biggest complaint patients have about therapy: the interminable wait for change to begin. The traditional therapeutic model sets its sights on the past, but Phil Stutz and Barry Michels employ an arsenal of techniques—“the tools”—that allow patients to use their problems as levers that access the power of the unconscious and propel them into action. Suddenly, through this transformative approach, obstacles become opportunities—to find courage, embrace discipline, develop self-expression, deepen creativity.

For years, Stutz and Michels taught these techniques to an exclusive patient base, but with The Tools, their revolutionary, empowering practice becomes available to every reader interested in realizing the full range of their potential. The authors’ goal is nothing less than for your life to become exceptional—exceptional in its resiliency, in its experience of real happiness, and in its understanding of the human spirit.

“An ‘open secret’ in Hollywood . . . [Stutz and Michels] have developed a program designed to access the creative power of the unconscious.”—The New Yorker

The Tools by Barry Michels

2012-05-29T00:30:00-05:00

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

eBook, 288 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Self-Help - Personal Growth; Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Health; Business & Economics - Motivational | $11.99 | May 29, 2012 | 978-0-679-64445-3 (0-679-64445-8)

The Tools by Barry Michels

2012-05-29T00:30:00-05:00

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
Read by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Unabridged Compact Disc | Random House Audio | Self-Help - Personal Growth; Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Health; Business & Economics - Motivational | $35.00 | May 29, 2012 | 978-0-307-98768-6 (0-307-98768-X)

The Tools by Barry Michels

2012-05-29T00:30:00-05:00

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
Read by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Self-Help - Personal Growth; Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Health; Business & Economics - Motivational | $17.50 | May 29, 2012 | 978-0-307-98766-2 (0-307-98766-3)

Random House New Releases - Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Health - Between May 25, 2012 and June 24, 2013.

Comedy by Henri Bergson

Comedy An Essay on ComedyWritten by Henri Bergson

The Tools by Barry Michels

The Tools 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward MotionWritten by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Better Than Normal by Dr. Dale Archer

Better Than Normal How What Makes You Different Can Make You ExceptionalWritten by Dr. Dale Archer

Live Through This by Sabrina Chapadjiev

Live Through This On Creativity and Self-DestructionEdited by Sabrina Chapadjiev

Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday LifeWritten by Gretchen Rubin

Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday LifeWritten by Gretchen Rubin

Happier at Home by Kathe Mazur

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday LifeWritten by Gretchen Rubin Read by Kathe Mazur

Happier at Home by Kathe Mazur

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday LifeWritten by Gretchen Rubin Read by Kathe Mazur

The Tools by Barry Michels

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and CreativityWritten by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

The Tools by Barry Michels

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and CreativityWritten by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

The Tools by Barry Michels

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and CreativityWritten by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels Read by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

The Tools by Barry Michels

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and CreativityWritten by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels Read by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Comedy An Essay on Comedy
Written by Henri Bergson

The Tools 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Better Than Normal How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
Written by Dr. Dale Archer

Live Through This On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin
Read by Kathe Mazur

Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin
Read by Kathe Mazur

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
Read by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

The Tools Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
Read by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels