How to become happier , healthier and more resilient : this book sums up a life in the psychiatrist's chair, guiding hundreds of patients, including the influential and famous.
This book looks at the influence a lifetime of patients has had on retired consultant psychiatrist Dr Tim Cantopher. It explores the profound, often moving, inter-relation between healer’ andwounded’, and examines how the two may overlap sometimes more than might be expected.
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How to become happier , healthier and more resilient : this book sums up a life in the psychiatrist's chair, guiding hundreds of patients, including the influential and famous.
This book looks at the influence a lifetime of patients has had on retired consultant psychiatrist Dr Tim Cantopher. It explores the profound, often moving, inter-relation between healer’ andwounded’, and examines how the two may overlap sometimes more than might be expected.
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FAILURE IS YOUR FRIEND, YOUR TEACHER, YOUR PASSPORT TO SUCCESS - LIFE LESSONS FROM ONE OF THE ESTEEMED PSYCHIATRIST
Dr Tim Cantopher spent four decades helping people get better - get better psychologically, emotionally, mentally. He has guided hundreds of men and women through anxiety, depression, addiction and other mental health issues. In The Power of Failure, he will share with you some of the most powerful lessons learned from his life in the psychiatrist's chair, with the aim of helping you get more joy from your life, to become more resilient and to achieve more by no longer fearing failure. Navigating the pitfalls of vulnerability and perfectionism, Dr Cantopher will show you how optimism and resilience can change the outcome of challenging events, and how to find lasting happiness that won't be derailed by negative emotions such as shame or fear. As an expert on toxic and dysfunctional relationships, he will give strategies for surviving narcissistic or destructive behaviours in your family or friends, and explain the benefits of kindness, consistency, persistence and pacing. Bringing together a lifetime's work in psychiatry with unparalleled expertise and clinical insight, this new book from the bestselling author of Depressive Illness: The Curse of the Strong has the power to change your life in the same way that Dr Cantopher has changed the lives of the many hundreds of people who have sought his help over the years.Critic Reviews
“This book should be read by everybody... It offers invaluable insight into depression [on Depressive Illness: The Curse of the Strong ]”
This book should be read by everybody... It offers invaluable insight into depression [on Depressive Illness: The Curse of the Strong] Depression Alliance
About the Author
Author of the bestselling Depressive Illness: The Curse of the Strong (Sheldon Press), Dr Tim Cantopher studied at University College, London, and University College Hospital. He trained as a psychiatrist at St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, and St George's, University of London. He has been a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1983 and was elected fellow of the college in 1999. He worked as a consultant psychiatrist with the Priory Group of Hospitals from 1993 until his retirement from clinical practice in 2015. The Power of Failure is Dr Cantopher's seventh book: his other titles include Toxic People: Dealing with dysfunctional relationships (Sheldon Press, 2017), Stress-Related Illness: Advice for people who give too much (Sheldon Press, 2019) and Overcoming Anxiety: Without Fighting It (Sheldon Press, 2019).
FAILURE IS YOUR FRIEND, YOUR TEACHER, YOUR PASSPORT TO SUCCESS - LIFE LESSONS FROM ONE OF THE ESTEEMED PSYCHIATRIST Dr Tim Cantopher spent four decades helping people get better - get better psychologically, emotionally, mentally. He has guided hundreds of men and women through anxiety, depression, addiction and other mental health issues. In The Power of Failure, he will share with you some of the most powerful lessons learned from his life in the psychiatrist's chair, with the aim of helping you get more joy from your life, to become more resilient and to achieve more by no longer fearing failure. Navigating the pitfalls of vulnerability and perfectionism, Dr Cantopher will show you how optimism and resilience can change the outcome of challenging events, and how to find lasting happiness that won't be derailed by negative emotions such as shame or fear. As an expert on toxic and dysfunctional relationships, he will give strategies for surviving narcissistic or destructive behaviours in your family or friends, and explain the benefits of kindness, consistency, persistence and pacing. Bringing together a lifetime's work in psychiatry with unparalleled expertise and clinical insight, this new book from the bestselling author of Depressive Illness: The Curse of the Strong has the power to change your life in the same way that Dr Cantopher has changed the lives of the many hundreds of people who have sought his help over the years.
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