what happy women know
how new in positive psychology can
change women's lives for the better
by
Dan Baker, PhD,
and Cathy Greenberg, PhD with Ina Yalof
The director
of Canyon
Ranch’s
award-winning
Life
Enhancement
Program
draws on the
latest
discoveries
in
psychology
and
gender-specific
medicine to
help all
women enjoy
richer,
healthier,
more
fulfilling
lives.
In this
innovative
book about
what brings
women
happiness,
Dr. Dan
Baker
focuses on
the five
traps that
can
compromise
happiness
and leave
women
yearning for
a better
life.
Unlike
clinical
psychology,
which
focuses on
trying to
fix what’s
wrong with
an
individual,
positive
psychology
builds on a
person’s
natural
strengths.
The root of
most
unhappiness,
fear, finds
a special
expression
in women,
who too
often
succumb to
the
happiness
traps of
perfectionism,
wanton
wanting,
people
pleasing,
seeking
revenge,
thinking I’m
nothing
without X,
and
over-investing
in their
careers.
In What
Happy Women
Know,
Dr. Baker
synthesizes
a wide range
of current
research on
how women
uniquely
respond to
life’s
slings and
arrows and
how they can
best bounce
back from
them. The
book offers
women a
compelling
set of tools
that will
help them
accept the
past and
actively
move toward
a happier
future of
their own
design.
Reviews:
From
Publishers Weekly
Happiness
is in many ways gender specific, says
Baker (What Happy People Know),
because women's brains are wired to
allow them to feel more, and more
frequent, positive feelings than men.
Baker, founding director of Canyon
Ranch's Life Enhancement program, and
Greenberg (What Happy Companies Know)
draw on positive psychology to show
women how to find happiness. Negative
traps prevent women from achieving
happiness, they say. These traps are
easily recognizable: perfectionism,
thinking you'll never be happy without a
lot of money or a man, focusing on work
as opposed to relationships. Happy
women, on the other hand, have a sense
of personal responsibility, the ability
to find opportunity in adversity, a
sense of purpose and courage. Writer
Yalof helps make all this accessible,
but many of these ideas are truisms, and
the authors sometimes characterize women
with facile generalizations, for
example: Most women don't know
themselves well enough to determine what
their special qualities are. Still,
women who find themselves in one of the
negative traps may find help here in
learning how to look on the bright side.
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About the Authors
Dan baker, Phd
is a medical
psychologist dedicated
to the study of human
behavior within an
organizational setting.
For the last 20 years,
he has carried out his
research in the perfect
laboratory--the
world-renowned Canyon
Ranch in Tucson,
Arizona--where he was
the founding director of
the award-winning Life
Enhancement Program. He
is also the best-selling
author of What Happy
People Know and
What Happy Companies
Know.
cathy greenberg, phd
has held leadership
positions at two of the
world's most recognized
consulting firms, CSC's
Global Organizational
Change Practice and the
Accenture Institute for
Strategic Change. She
has traveled the globe
through her work as an
organizational
consultant and executive
coach. She is the
coauthor of What
Happy Companies Know.
ina
yalof
is a writer with a
background as a medical
sociologist. She is the
author or coauthor of 11
books. She teaches
writing for Dartmouth
College's ILEAD program.
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