Books like Rapt by Winifred Gallagher

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On new thought.

Dr. Gábor Máté explores how social and emotional environments shape Attention Deficit Disorder, blending scientific insight with personal experience as an ADD sufferer and parent of diagnosed children.

Edward de Bono's book on how to become a beautiful thinker and communicator through lateral and parallel thinking skills.

A collection of inspiring and comforting stories on relationships, motherhood, aging, and self-improvement, authored by Jack Canfield.

Dr. Lenard Adler, director of NYU School of Medicine’s Adult ADHD Program, offers an authoritative, evidence‑based guide to adult ADHD, covering symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options, and coping strategies.

Guidelines, quizzes, and creative exercises help readers identify and master personal fears, turning anxiety into positive life changes.

Cheryl Dellasega’s "Mean Girls Grown Up" examines how relational aggression among women persists into adulthood, offering research‑based strategies to recognize, avoid, and change aggressive patterns for healthier interpersonal relations.

This book provides clear and sometimes surprising answers to why gratitude is important to living well. The science of gratitude has shown much growth in the last ten years, and there is now sufficient evidence to suggest that gratitude is one of the most important components of the good life. Both correlational and experimental studies have provided support for the theory that gratitude enhances well-being.  After providing a lucid understanding of gratitude, this volume explores the many aspects of well-being that are associated with gratitude. Moreover, experimental work has now provided promising evidence to suggest that gratitude actually causes enhancements in happiness.  If gratitude promotes human flourishing, how does it do so?  This issue is addressed in the second section of the book by exploring the mechanisms that might explain the gratitude/well-being relationship. This book provides an up to date account of gratitude research and suggested interesting paths for future research, all while providing a theory of gratitude that helps make this information more understandable.  This book is very valuable to gratitude investigators, as well as all who are interested in pursuing this line of research, students and scholars of emotion and well-being and instructors of positive psychology courses and seminars.