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INCLUDES NOTES FROM:• Louann Brizendine, M.D. on the male brain

• Christopher Chabris, Ph.D. and Daniel Simons, Ph.D.on their “gorilla experiment”

• Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. on her book Mindset

• Paul E. Stepansky, Ph.D.on the state of American psychoanalysis

• Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.on using her books as effective teaching tools

• Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D.on teaching students about change

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THE INVISIBLE GORILLAAnd Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive UsBy Christopher Chabris, Ph.D. and Daniel Simons, Ph.D.“Too often thinking is depicted in its extremes as the triumph or travesty of intuition.Chabris and Simons present a uniquely nuanced understanding of the power and pitfallsof perception, thought, and memory. This book will delight all who seek depth andinsight into the wonder and complexities of cognition.”

—Jerome Groopman, M.D., Recanati Professor, Harvard Medical School, and author of How Doctors Think

MINDSETThe New Psychology of SuccessBy Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.“Many professors who have adopted Mindset in their courses tell me that the studentsenjoy it tremendously, that it provokes excellent class discussions, and that it lendsitself to useful and interesting exercises.... They have told me that many of theirstudents gain the courage to pursue their most valued goals, ones they may not havepursued in the past because of the fear of failure.”

—Author Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. on her book Mindset

PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE MARGINSBy Paul E. Stepansky, Ph.D.“With massive documentation across the entire spectrum of physical and mentalhealing professions, historian Paul Stepansky mounts a provocative thesis that links thefractionation (or pluralism) of psychoanalytic theory and praxis both to the long-acknowledged ‘crisis’ within the field and to the growing public disenchantment withpsychoanalysis in its intellectual, cultural, and therapeutic aspects. This book is a clarioncall for urgent remedial attention and effective coordinated response.”

—Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D., former President of the American PsychoanalyticAssociation and the International Psychoanalytical Association

YOU WERE ALWAYS MOM’S FAVORITE!Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their LivesBy Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.“Another reason, I’m told, why students like this book is that I include many examples ofmyself and my own two sisters. Students appreciate seeing the author of a textbook asa person they can relate to. Even the title evokes immediate recognition because somany have heard or said it.”

—Author Deborah Tannen on her new book You Were Always Mom’s Favorite!

THE SEARCH FOR FULFILLMENTRevolutionary New Research That Reveals the Secret to Long-Term HappinessBy Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D.“This remarkable exploration into the core dimensions of human nature takes readers ofall ages on a journey of liberation. The psychologically revolutionary ideas that flowthrough every chapter free us from simplistic pop-psych notions of ‘midlife crises’ andconfining age-based passages. We come to appreciate the extraordinary fluidity ofhuman nature as people mature and embark on life’s dynamic pathways, ideally towardpersonal fulfillment on triumphant or authentic paths. Emerging from solid, originalresearch, The Search for Fulfillment’s sound, practical advice can transform your life.This is a must-read-now book.”

—Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox

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In Carrot and Sticks, Yale professor of law and economics andNew York Times bestselling author Ian Ayres applies the

learning of behavioral economics—the fascinating new scienceof rewards and punishments—to introduce the concept ofcommitment contracts, and shows how to tailor thesecontracts to radically increase their effectiveness. Through thecompelling case studies of individuals and businesses usingsuch contracts, from the electrical engineer who risked $400 tomake himself stop artificially sneezing, to the writer and herfriend who pledged to pay each other $5,000 for everycigarette they smoked, Ayres demonstrates how behavioraleconomics can help supercharge incentives, and what kinds ofcommitments work for different people.

“For about thirty years there has been increasing study of howpeople try, and sometimes succeed, in managing their ownbehavior: smoking, eating, procrastinating, drinking, losing theirtemper, fears and phobias, games, fingernails. . . . The list goeson. Here is an entertaining report on one of the basic techniquesof overcoming what the ancient Greeks called ‘weakness of will.’ All can enjoy it; many may discover it therapeutic.”

—Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics

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IAN AYRES, an econometrician and lawyer, is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School, and aprofessor at Yale’s School of Management. He is a regular commentator on public radio’s Marketplace and acolumnist for Forbes magazine. He is currently the editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, andhas written eight books and more than a hundred articles.

“A lively and yet rigorously careful account of the use of quantitative methods foranalysis and decision-making. . . . Both social scientists and businessmen canprofit from this book, while enjoying themselves in the process.”

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Rob Harrison is one of the most beloved teachers at Yale Law School. He has improvedthe writing and emotional outlook of generations of our students. He is the kind of guywho unabashedly ends his emails “Love, Rob.” He is staggeringly kind. So it came as a bitof a shock when Rob told me that he had used unforgiving commitment contracts to helpstudents overcome writer’s block. For more than a decade, students have given him checksof up to $10,000, signed and made out to charity, and authorized Rob to mail the checksif they failed to turn in a paper to the course professor by a specified date.

To date, his check-holding commitments have never failed. Rob has never had to mailone of these commitment checks. This is a spectacular result—particularly because Robonly offers the contracts to students who are hard-core procrastinators, kids who havealready demonstrated a deep psychological inability of putting pen to paper (or nowadays,finger to keyboard).

I wrote Carrots and Sticks in part to understand why Rob has been so successful. The ideaof incentives and commitments has been around forever. But the simplistic economic ideathat you’ll get more of something if you dangle a larger carrot or less of something else ifyou brandish a larger stick misses a lot of what motivates people. For example, what’sreally interesting about Rob’s intervention is the charities that the students chose topotentially fund. For the first five years that Rob provided his check service, theprocrastinators made the checks payable to charities that they liked. But about five yearsago, a student suggested that making the checks out to charities they didn’t like would bean even more effective incentive.

The idea of anti-charities has become a popular option on a commitment company that Ifounded, www.stickK.com, where people have put more than $3,000,000 at risk to stickKto all kinds of commitments—including getting their school papers in on time. Users whoput money at risk can decide who will get any money that is forfeited on their contract.Our 43rd president is a uniter in retirement. Currently the George W. Bush Presidentiallibrary is our most popular anti-charity.

Carrots and Sticks tells the stories behind dozens of randomized trials testing thewellsprings of human motivations. It exposes students to cutting edge studies inbehavioral economics and psychology. The book shows that the new learning inmotivation has a lot to say about how best to tailor commitments to make them moreeffective and virtually free. Students will learn why Zappos offers new employees $2,000to quit, and how a New Zealand ad exec successfully sold his smoking habit. But thisbook is not an extended advertisement for stickK or for the value of commitmentcontracts. It also explores not only how best to pick the right commitment tool, but alsowhen it’s best to keep the tool in the box.

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With the explosion of new data on the female brain in recent years, Dr.Brizendine distills all of this information in a highly accessible way in

order to describe the unique brain-body-behavior of women. Thisrevolutionary book combines two decades of Dr. Brizendine’s own work, real-life stories from her clinical practice, and all of the latest information from thescientific community at large to provide a truly comprehensive look at the waywomen’s minds work.

“Destined to become a classic in the field of gender studies.” —Marilyn Yalom, author of A History of the Breast

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About the Author

LOUANN BRIZENDINE, M.D., a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and theNational Board of Medical Examiners, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, SanFrancisco (UCSF). She is founder and Director of the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic.

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THE MALE BRAINA Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys ThinkBy Louann Brizendine, M.D.

From the author of the groundbreaking New York Timesbestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly anticipated

follow-up. In The Male Brain, Dr. Brizendine draws upon thelatest scientific breakthroughs to show how, through everyphase of life, the “male reality” is fundamentally different fromthe female one. Exploring the latest breakthroughs in malepsychology and neurology with her trademark accessibility andcandor, she reveals that the male brain:• is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine. Faced with a personal problem, a

man will use his analytical brain structures, not his emotional ones, to find a solution;

• thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rankand hierarchy;

• has an area for sexual pursuit that is 2.5 times larger than the female brain, consuming him with sexual fantasies about female body parts;

• experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceives others’ faces to be more aggressive.

Following the male brain from infancy to adulthood, Dr. Brizendine ultimately helps us understand what we seeand experience as men’s brain-body-behavior.

“It takes an extraordinary woman like Dr. Louann Brizendine tounderstand the male brain. She brings the latest in state-of-the-art science in helping us to understand the most ancient andprimal of male passions and desires—and viva le difference!Highly recommended.” —Dean Ornish, author of The Spectrum

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I first learned that medical science had assumed male and female brains were exactly alike whenI raised my hand in medical school to ask the professor what the results were in the females inhis research and he said, “Oh, we don’t study the females since their menstrual cycle would justmess up the data.” The more I looked into it the more I realized that scientists had assumed malebodies and brains were the average or ‘normal’ human. But I knew this wasn’t true from all myneuroscience courses on other mammals.

The story of how the male and female brain develops through the life cycle captures theimagination of students in any number of disciplines, including the sciences, medicine, Women’sstudies, psychology, sociology, philosophy, law, bioethics, journalism, and creative writing. I’vespoken about the male and female brain at schools around the country, where students areconstantly transfixed by the story.

One aspect I’ve found particularly gratifying to share is what we’ve learned about a man’s brainwhen he becomes a father, and what this means for the mom, too. In short, when a new babyarrives, a father’s hormones change and he needs time alone—with the baby. New mothers oftenfeel too protective to leave their husbands alone with their baby, but the making of a daddy brainrequires not only hormones and paternal brain circuits but also stimulation and alone-time withthe infant. Research has shown that fathers act more spontaneously with their baby when the ba by’s mom is not in the room. The experience of being a hands-on father also dramaticallyincreases the male’s brain circuits for pater nal behavior. When fathers don’t have daily hands-oncontact with their baby, their daddy brain circuits get weak and flabby. But fathers who areintimately involved in child care form stronger emotional bonds with their children.

Another area of particular interest to psychologists is information we’ve learned about the wayboys and girls learn. Boys learn to read and do math with their muscles, more so than girls do,through a process called embodied learning. For example, when boys learn to read the word“run,” messages from their brain are sent to muscles in their legs, helping them associate theword with the feeling in their legs. Un derstanding this about boys can make all the difference forparents and teachers.

As a doctor and college professor, I know the importance of finding books for my students thatcover a wide variety of research to help them better understand the underpinnings of humanbehavior. I believe both my books, The Female Brain and The Male Brain do just that. In factother professors have told me they’ve used them to tell the the complete story of health,community, family, science, history, relationships and humanity.

During the next year, I will be speaking about my books in many cities nationwide. As a regularguest speaker and expert advisor on radio and television, I enjoy speaking across the country andworld, and I always come away learning something new. My talks have been called “inspiring,entertaining and making neuroscience come alive,” and you can visit the schedule page of mywebsite at LouannBrizendine.com to see if I’ll be speaking near you. You can also contact methrough the site, with any requests or questions. I look forward to hearing from teachers andstudents and meeting many of you in the future. As a college neurobiology major, I couldn’t haveimagined that my patients in the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic would lead me tobecome a writer, or that writing this book would be a twenty-year journey. There’s no tellingwhat effect these stories of my patient’s lives could have on students. I can’t wait to find out.

Louann Brizendine, M.D.




About the Authors

CHRISTOPHER CHABRIS, Ph.D and DANIEL SIMONS, Ph.D. are cognitive psychologists who have eachreceived accolades for their research on a wide range of topics. Their “Gorillas in Our Midst” study reveals the darkside of our ability to pay attention and has quickly become one of the best-known experiments in all ofpsychology; it inspired a stage play and was even discussed by characters on C.S.I. Chabris, who received his Ph.D.from Harvard, is a psychology professor at Union College in New York. Simons, who received his Ph.D. fromCornell, is a psychology professor at the University of Illinois.

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and DanielSimons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous

experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitivescientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Ourminds don’t work the way we think they do.

Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researcherswith their own findings on attention, perception, memory, andreasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often influence ourdecision-making. They reveal the myriad ways that ourintuitions can deceive us and go further to explain why wesuccumb to these everyday illusions and what can be done toinoculate against their effects. In the process, they explain,among other things:• how a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it;

• what criminals have in common with chess masters;

• why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback.

Ultimately, The Invisible Gorilla provides a radical rethinkingabout how we think.

“The illusion of attention is one of the most important,surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucidbook examines it in detail.”

—Nassim N. Taleb, author of The Black Swan

“If the authors make you second-guess yourself 10 times today,they’ve done their job.” —Psychology Today

“A fascinating look at little-known illusions that greatly affectour daily lives . . . Their readable book offers surprising insightsinto just how clueless we are about how our minds work andhow we experience the world ... Bound to have wide popularappeal.” —Kirkus Reviews

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More than a decade ago, when we did the experiment that inspired the name of our book, we hadno idea that it would become as well known as it has. For us, it was mostly a way for the studentsin a course we were teaching to work together on a research project on perception and awareness.We created several videos (http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html) thatshowed two groups of three people passing basketballs around. The students showed one of thesevideos to subjects and asked them to count how many times the people wearing white passed theball. While they were focusing their attention on this task, half of the subjects failed to notice aperson in a gorilla suit who casually strolled into the scene, thumped her chest at the camera, andwalked off the other side.

This study was inspired by earlier research by the pioneering cognitive psychologist Ulric Neisser,who showed that people failed to notice when a woman carrying an open umbrella unexpectedlywalked through the scene. In his videos, though, the actors were all partially transparent, and thisfact enabled people to rationalize their failure to notice the umbrella woman—she was just hard tosee. We went one step further and asked whether people could miss a fully visible unexpectedevent. We thought the answer would be no, so the results shocked us.

The gorilla video gradually gained notoriety, eventually earning us an Ig Nobel prize inpsychology (awarded for achievements that “first make you laugh, and then make you think”). We started to realize that the video was popular because it gives people a deep and tangibleinsight into a surprising fact about how their own minds work. Normally, we literally don’t knowwhat we are missing, but the gorilla video shows us that we must be missing a lot. It forces viewersto confront their own cognitive limitations and their assumptions about themselves.

Just as people believe, like we did, that unexpected events will capture our attention, they alsobelieve that vivid memories are inherently accurate and that confidence is a good indicator ofknowledge and skill. People readily infer cause when they shouldn’t, perceive patterns that don’texist, and get taken in by claims for quick ways to boost brainpower. We call these mistaken ideasabout the mind “everyday illusions.” The striking aspect of these intuitive misbeliefs is that ourdaily experiences rarely force us to confront them. The Invisible Gorilla couples our own research,and that of others, with entertaining real-world examples and personal stories that we hope willgive readers a new way of looking at their own behavior and the world around them.

One of the challenges in teaching psychology is that all people are intuitive psychologists, but wedon’t realize that our commonsense beliefs about the mind, brain, and behavior are oftendrastically wrong. When we start an introductory course in psychology or cognition with thegorilla video, it forces our students to confront the fact that their own minds don’t work the waythey think. The video instantly shows that psychological science is more than just common sense,and it sets them on a path of trusting experiments over instinct and thinking more critically aboutaccepted beliefs. We have peppered our book with similar examples and experiments that helpbring home the often faulty assumptions we make about how the mind works, how we think,remember, decide, and reason. We hope that The Invisible Gorilla will make students morereceptive to having their assumptions challenged, and that it will help teachers and students tothink differently, in psychology courses and beyond.

Christopher Chabris, Ph.D. and Daniel Simons, Ph.D.

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“An important and timely message about the biological roots ofhuman kindness.” —Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape

Are we our brothers’ keepers? Do we have an instinct forcompassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on

earth to serve our own survival and interests? In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Apeexamines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety ofanimals, including humans.

By studying social behaviors in animals, such as bonding, theherd instinct, the forming of trusting alliances, expressions ofconsolation, and conflict resolution, Frans de Waal demon-strates that animals—and humans—are “preprogrammed toreach out.” He has found that chimpanzees care for mates thatare wounded by leopards, elephants offer “reassuring rumbles”to youngsters in distress, and dolphins support sick compan-ions near the water’s surface to prevent them from drowning.Humans also demonstrate similar innate sensitivities to faces,bodies, and voices; the species has been designed to feel forone another.

De Waal’s theory runs counter to the assumption that humansare inherently selfish, which can be seen in the fields ofpolitics, law, and finance, and which seems to be evidenced bythe current greed-driven stock market collapse. But he citesthe public’s outrage at the U.S. government’s lack of empathyin the wake of Hurricane Katrina as a significant shift inperspective—one that helped Barack Obama become electedand ushered in what may well become an Age of Empathy.Through a better understanding of empathy’s survival value inevolution, de Waal suggests, we can work together toward amore just society based on a more generous and accurate viewof human nature.

About the Author

FRANS DE WAAL is a Dutch-born biologist who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the world’s best-known primatologists, de Waal is C. H. Candler professor of psychology and director of the Living Links Center atthe Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University. He has been elected to the National Academyof Sciences and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. In 2007, Time selected him as one of the World’s 100 MostInfluential People.

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Greed is out, empathy is in.

The global financial crisis of 2008, together with the election of a new Americanpresident, has produced a seismic shift in society. Many have felt as if they werewaking up from a bad dream about a big casino where the people’s money had beengambled away, enriching a happy few without the slightest worry about the rest of us.This nightmare was set in motion a quarter century earlier by Reagan-Thatchertrickle-down economics and the soothing reassurance that markets are wonderful atself-regulation. No one believes this anymore.

American politics seems poised for a new epoch that stresses cooperation and socialresponsibility. The emphasis is on what unites a society, what makes it worth living in,rather than what material wealth we can extract from it. Empathy is the grand themeof our time, as reflected in the speeches of Barack Obama, such as when he toldgraduates at Northwestern University, in Chicago: “I think we should talk more aboutour empathy deficit. . . . It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger thanyourself that you will realize your true potential.”

The message of The Age of Empathy is that human nature offers a giant helping handin this endeavor. True, biology is usually called upon to justify a society based onselfish principles, but we should never forget that it has also produced the glue thatholds communities together. This glue is the same for us as for many other animals.Being in tune with others, coordinating activities, and caring for those in need isn’trestricted to our species. Human empathy has the backing of a long evolutionaryhistory—which is the second meaning of “age” in this book’s title.

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Praise for The Age of Empathy

“A pioneer in primate studies, Frans de Waal sees our better side in chimps, especially ourcapacity for empathy. In his research, Dr. de Waal has gathered ample evidence that our ability toidentify with another’s distress—a catalyst for compassion and charity—has deep roots in theorigin of our species. It is a view independently reinforced by recent biomedical studies showingthat our brains are built to feel another’s pain.” —Robert Lee Hotz, The Wall Street Journal

“De Waal, a renowned primatologist, knows the territory firsthand. He writes clearly and playsfair; he takes on the strongest arguments against him and is quick to acknowledge complexity.His book is popular science as it should be, far superior to the recent spate of “Darwin made medo it” books that purport to explain (or explain away) our behavior.”

—Edward Dolnick, Bookforum

Addressing the question of whether it is possible to ‘combine a thriving economy with a humanesociety’ zoologist de Waal answers with a resounding yes. . . . De Waal cites the ‘evolutionaryantiquity’ of empathy to argue that ‘society depends on a second invisible hand, one that reachesout to others.’ An appealing celebration of our better nature.” —Kirkus



Aleading expert in motivation and personality psychology,Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. has discovered in more than

twenty years of research that mindset is not a minorpersonality quirk: it creates one’s whole mental world.

In Mindset, she argues that it explains how individuals becomeoptimistic or pessimistic, shaping their goals, their attitudetoward work and relationships, and how they raise their kids—ultimately predicting whether or not they will fulfill theirpotential. She demonstrates that mindset unfolds in childhoodand adulthood and drives every aspect of one’s life, from workto sports, from relationships to parenting. She illustrates howcreative geniuses in all fields—music, literature, science, sports,business—apply the growth mindset to achieve results.

Highly engaging and drawing upon years of research, Mindsetbreaks new ground as it offers compelling methods to changeone’s manner of thinking for a more productive life.

“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book isone whose advice you follow. I have found Carol Dweck’s workon mindsets invaluable in my own life, and even life-changing inmy attitudes toward the challenges that, over the years, becomemore demanding rather than less. This is a book that can changeyour life, as its ideas have changed mine.” —Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Education and Psychologyat Yale University, director of the PACE Center of Yale University,

and author of Successful Intelligence

“A serious, practical book. Dweck’s overall assertion that rigidthinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a changeof mind is always possible, is welcome.” —Publishers Weekly

“Highly recommended. . . . This book is an essential read forparents, teachers, coaches, and others who are instrumental indetermining a child’s mind-set, and in turn, his or her futuresuccess, as well as for those who would like to increase their ownfeelings of success and fulfillment.”

—Library Journal, starred review

About the Author

CAROL S. DWECK, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and is the Lewisand Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research has focused on why peoplesucceed and how to foster success. She has held professorships at Columbia and Harvard Universities, haslectured all over the world, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarlybook Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named Book of the Year by the WorldEducation Federation. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, Time, The New YorkTimes, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20.

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When I was in the 6th grade, my teacher Mrs. Wilson seated us around the room in I.Q.order. Only the highest IQ students were allowed to erase the blackboard or carry the flag inthe school assembly. Mrs. Wilson believed that your IQ score embodied not just your inbornintelligence, but your character as well. This was my first and most powerful experience withthe fixed mindset—the idea that your traits are fixed and that they define you. I have devotedmy life to liberating students from this mindset.

Mindset introduces students to a body of research they can use in their lives, especially duringthis challenging time. Every year I teach freshman, and I am continually struck by what astruggle it is for so many of them, even the most academically prepared. Challenges arecoming at them from every direction. If they’re away at school for the first time, they have tolearn how to regulate themselves. Many of them have never gone to sleep or woken upwithout parental intervention. New social challenges await them. And many are confrontingacademic work that is much harder than anything they’ve done before. My students find thegrowth mindset—the idea that your qualities can be developed over time—to be critical totheir adjustment. They constantly use the growth mindset principles to take on newchallenges.

Rigorous research shows that it can be very helpful for students to learn about the growthmindset in college. It can positively effect motivation, grade point averages, and self-esteem.In particular, it can help students transcend negative stereotypes, such as women in math orminority students in a variety of subjects, helping them understand that they can acquire theseskills through good instruction and sustained effort.

Mindset has also played a key role in professional development. Many educational institutionshave made it required reading for their administrators and teachers because the book is full ofcrucial information about how to motivate students. The same thing is happening withathletic organizations, in which, according to coaches, a growth mindset is proving essentialfor the development of an athlete’s (and a coach’s) potential. Business schools and businessorganizations are using Mindset to encourage effective leadership and necessary innovation intimes of change.

Many professors who have adopted Mindset in their courses tell me that the students enjoy ittremendously, that it provokes excellent class discussions, and that it lends itself to useful andinteresting exercises. For example, students can write about something they would like tochange in themselves and how they would go about it, and keep a journal of their changes.Students can be asked to do something “outrageously” growth mindset (something they mightnot have otherwise done) toward their goal of change, and they can write about it or sharethis with their classmates. Professors have told me that many of their students gain thecourage to pursue their most valued goals, ones they may not have pursued in the past becauseof the fear of failure.

Almost every day, I get wonderful letters from educators who have assigned Mindset. I hope I will get a letter from you.

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.




Winner of the 2003 Gradiva Award

Arguing for the importance of attachment and emotionalityin the developing human consciousness, four prominent

analysts explore and refine the concepts of mentalization andaffect regulation. Their bold, energetic, and encouraging vision for psychoanalytic treatment combines elements ofdevelopmental psychology, attachment theory, andpsychoanalytic technique. Drawing extensively on case studiesand recent analytic literature to illustrate their ideas, Fonagy,Gergely, Jurist, and Target offer models of psychotherapypractice that can enable the gradual development ofmentalization and affect regulation even in patients with longhistories of violence or neglect.

In their book, the authors provide an exhaustive review ofpsychoanalytic and developmental psychological research,employing an array of detailed and engaging case studies. Theythen put forth a comprehensive theory for the way in which theabilities to mentalize (make and use mental representations ofone’s own and other people’s emotional states) and affectregulation (control one’s own emotions as is appropriate toenvironment) can determine a person’s successful development.They also discuss the ways in which bad or insufficientparenting can leave children unable to modulate and interprettheir own feelings, as well as the feelings of those around them,and consider the implications for personality disorders andgeneral psychological problems of self-confidence, etc. Finallythey evaluate the role of psychoanalytic therapy in addressingthis problem in patients, by teaching them in later life todevelop these cognitive/emotional capabilities.

“Stunning in its scope, powerfully reasoned, clinically rich intelling cases, and historically sophisticated. What an intellectualdelight to have a book that stays in your mind, continues tochallenge, and offers new directions for understanding.”

—Ed Tronick, Chief of the Child Development Unit, AssociateProfessor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

“This book is already a classic.” —Paul Verhaeghe, University of Ghent

AFFECT REGULATION, MENTALIZATION, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELFBy Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, and Mary Target

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About the Authors

PETER FONAGY, Ph.D., F.B.A., is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. GYORGY GERGELY, Ph.D., is Director of theDevelopmental Psychology Laboratory of the Psychology Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. MARY TARGET, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis at University College London. ELLIOT L. JURIST,Ph.D., is Director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, CUNY, and Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.



Book Excerpt from Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self

We apply a philosophy-of-mind approach to our work in order to capture and specify theprocess by which infants fathom the minds of others and eventually their own minds. Thenotion that we fathom ourselves through others has its source in German Idealism andhas been articulated further by analytic philosophers of mind. The use of philosophy ofmind in this way is common in the field of social cognition. What differentiates ourapproach is the attention we give not just to cognition, but to affects as well. In thisregard, we rely on attachment theory, which provides empirical support for the notionthat an infant’s sense of self emerges from the affective quality of relationship with theprimary caregiver. Indeed, our work does not just borrow from attachment theory, butoffers a significant reformulation of it. We shall argue that attachment is not an end initself; rather, it exists in order to produce a representational system that has evolved, wemay presume, to aid human survival. Another way to think about the contribution of thisbook, therefore, is as an effort to resolve some of the historical tensions betweenpsychoanalysis and attachment theory.

Let us say a little more about the main theme of this work and its relation to the trio ofterms found in our title. Our main focus throughout is on the development ofrepresentations of psychological states in the minds of infants, children, adolescents, andadults. Mentalization—a concept that is familiar in developmental circles—is the processby which we realize that having a mind mediates our experience of the world.Mentalization is intrinsically linked to the development of the self, to its graduallyelaborated inner organization, and to its participation in human society, a network ofhuman relationships with other beings who share this unique capacity. We have used theterm “reflective function” to refer to our operationalization of the mental capacities thatgenerate mentalization.

Mentalization is intimately related to the development of both the agentive and therepresentational aspects of the self: both the “I” and the “Me” described by W. James. Agreat deal of attention has been paid to the development of self-representation, James’s“Me” or the “empirical self,’ which encompasses the development of the set ofcharacteristics that we believe to be true of ourselves even if this knowledge is inferredfrom the reactions to us from our social environment. Thus, this aspect of mentalization isa concept with a rich history in both psychoanalytic theory and cognitive psychology.However, the self as a mental agent—or, as we have referred to it elsewhere, thepsychological self—is a relatively neglected subject of study. The relative neglect bypsychologists and psychoanalysts of the developmental processes that underpin theagentive self may be seen as a residue of the traditionally powerful Cartesian doctrine offirst-person authority that claims direct and infallible introspective access to intentionalmind states, rather than seeing this access as a hard-won developmental acquisition.

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About the Author

ANDREA GILLIES is a newspaper columnist in the United Kingdom. Keeper, her first book, has been praised inthe British press for its “accessible literary style and its balanced elucidation of both the science of Alzheimer’sDisease and the toll it takes on sufferers and carers alike.” The Times Literary Supplement called it “a relevant andimportant book . . . required reading for carers caught up in the tidal wave of dementia coming our way.”

KEEPEROne House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer’sBy Andrea Gillies

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Andrea Gillies moved with her husband and children to aspacious Victorian house in remote northern Scotland in

order to allow Chris’s parents to move in with them and becared for by Andrea, who works at home. It was his motherNancy, who suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease, who needed afull-time caretaker. Over the next two years Andreaexperienced frustration, rage, isolation, exhaustion, andoccasional moments of hope and humor, but was left with adeepening sense of Nancy’s inescapable misery. Alzheimer’smost pernicious quality, as Gillies’s narrative vividly illustrates,is that it robs the person of her fundamental essence. The lossof memory is, in effect, the loss of one’s very self. Keeper is anengrossing memoir and meditation on memory and the mind,on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.

“Gillies writes with a novelist’s eye for detail, and her unflinchingrendering of Nancy’s excruciating loss of self is skillfully andtenderly drawn. As well, Gillies has delved vigorously into theresearch, offering the received wisdom on Alzheimer’s, whichdictates that acceptance and distraction are the most helpfulmethods to deal with sufferers. . . . Moreover, her memoir is aninvaluable resource on the stages of Alzheimer’s, history, drugs,brain function, care giving options, even literary works.”

—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Andrea Gillies’ account of living with Alzheimer’s is the perfectfusion of narrative with enough memorable science not to chokeyou. It’s a fantastic book—down to earth and darkly comic inplaces.” —The Psychologist

“With an economy of expression, an eye for detail and astoryteller’s knack for dialogue, Gillies charts Nancy’s terriblecourse from doddering to vicious and her own decline intocaregiver dementia . . . An unvarnished cautionary tale.”

—Kirkus, starred review

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When I was a carer of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, my mother-in-law Nancy, Ithought the fact that I’m a natural consumer of printed word, a gobbler of books andprint information, would help me with my new role. I went out looking for guidance.Perhaps it was bad luck, but the books that I found in my local bookshop were of thekind that reassure a carer that all will be well with the right approach: that, in effect,the happiness or otherwise of the person with dementia is down to the right kind ofhandling.

I’ve learned that this is nonsense. Dementias are unlike any other kind of disease inbeing diseases of Selfhood. The physical progress of Alzheimer’s through the brain,robbing a person first of memory and then of the autobiographical basis of identity, isto blame for the unhappiness that Alzheimer’s brings. It’s often thought that memoryis a vault, an archive that we can visit, but the truth is that it’s a process, an orchestralprocess fuelled by millions of co-operative neurons working together. ‘Self,’, theexperience of self, self-knowledge, is likewise a process and not something fixed. It isconstantly being made and remade—and so it can be unmade. Consciousness isn’tjust about doing and knowing, but knowing that we’ve done and have known.

Keeper is a unique kind of dementia memoir, in interweaving the story of Nancy’sdecline, (tracking that steady and shocking decline with anecdotes, with vivid recordsof conversations between the two of us as Nancy becomes more ill), with a wide-ranging exploration of what Alzheimer’s is, and what it means for us as humans.

Dementia is a ticking time-bomb in our society. A tsunami of dementia is coming ourway. There are about 35 million people with one of the 100 or so kinds of dementia,across the world. By 2030 there will be around 65 million. By 2050, the numbers areforecasted to be in the region of 115 million. Where will it end? More importantly,how will it end? In the USA in 2008, $5.6 billion was spent on cancer research, andonly $0.4 billion on dementia science.

Pronouncements about medical advances in identifying and treating dementia—evenpreventing its onset—are almost daily events in the media, but the truth is thatnobody really knows for sure what it is, or where it comes from, or how we can fightit. In the meantime, what’s needed is greater understanding of the devastation thatdementia can wreak on sufferers and the families of sufferers.

I hope you find Keeper a stimulating and thought-provoking read, and a verymeaningful one to share with your students.

Andrea Gillies




In their compelling book the Heath brothers put a spotlighton the difficulties involved in bringing about genuine,

lasting change—in ourselves and in others—especially withfew resources and no title or authority. Combining psychology,sociology, management, and case studies from a host ofdifferent fields, the authors tell countless stories of people andorganizations successfully creating significant change, from thegraduate who transformed the diets and nutrition of poorfamilies in rural Vietnam—using what the authors call findingBright Spots—to breaking bigger goals down into moremanageable steps—what the authors call Small Steps.

“Witty and instructive . . . The Heath brothers think that thesciences of human behavior can provide us with tools for makingchanges in our lives—tools that are more effective than‘willpower,’ ‘leadership’ and other easier-said-than-donesolutions. . . . For any effort at change to succeed, the Heathsargue, you have to ‘shape the path.’ With Switch they haveshaped a path that leads in a most promising direction.”

—The Wall Street Journal

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Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve thechances of worthy ideas? Here, accomplished business educators Chip and

Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions, in a book that will transform theway we communicate ideas. As the Heaths reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick,they also explain ways to make ideas stickier.

Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas, and tells us how we canapply these rules to making our own messages stick—even offering advice foreducators on how to make their lessons stick with students.Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6428-1 | 336pp. $26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00

About the Authors

CHIP HEATH is a professor of organizational behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.DAN HEATH, a former researcher at Harvard Business School, is now a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASECenter, which supports social entrepreneurs.

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SWITCHHow to Change Things When Change Is HardBy Chip Heath and Dan Heath

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This is a book to help you change things when change is hard. We’ll consider changeat every level—individual, organizational, and societal. Maybe you want to help yourbrother beat his gambling addiction. Maybe you need your team at work to act morefrugally because of market conditions. Maybe you wish more of your neighbors wouldbike to work.

Usually these topics are treated separately—there is “change management” advice forexecutives and “self-help advice” for individuals and “change the world” advice foractivists. That’s a shame, because all change efforts have something in common: Foranything to change, someone has to start acting differently. Your brother has got tostay out of the casino; your employees have got to start booking coach fares.Ultimately, all change efforts boil down to the same mission: Can you get people tostart behaving in a new way?

We know what you’re thinking—people resist change. But it’s not quite that easy.Babies are born every day to parents who, inexplicably, welcomed the change. Thinkabout the sheer magnitude of that change! Such an idea would never fly in the workworld: Would anyone agree to work for a boss who’d wake you up twice a night,screaming, for trivial administrative duties? And what if, every time you wore a newpiece of clothing, the boss spit up on it? Yet people don’t resist this massive change—they volunteer for it.

Enormous changes are all around us, and they often come voluntarily—not justbabies, but marriages and new homes and new technologies and new job duties.Meanwhile, other behaviors are maddeningly intractable. Smokers keep smoking andkids grow fatter and your husband can’t ever seem to get his dirty shirts into ahamper.

So there are hard changes and easy changes. What distinguishes one from the other?In this book, we’ll argue that successful changes share a common pattern—theyrequire the leader of the change to do three things at once. We’ve already seen thefirst of those three things: To change someone’s behavior, you’ve got to change theirsituation.

The situation isn’t the whole game, of course. An alcoholic might go dry in rehab, butwhat happens when they leave? Your sales reps might be hyper-productive when thesales manager shadows them, but what happens afterward? For someone’s behavior tochange, you’ve got to influence not just their environment but their hearts and minds.The trick is this: Often the heart and mind disagree. Fervently.

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COUNTERCLOCKWISEMindful Health and the Power of PossibilityBy Ellen J. Langer, Ph.D.

If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we alsoturn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-

winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied thisprovocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presentsthe answer: Opening our minds to what’s possible, instead ofpresuming impossibility, can lead to better health–at any age.

Drawing on landmark work in the field and her own body ofcolorful and highly original experiments—including the firstdetailed discussion of her “counterclockwise” study, in whichelderly men lived for a week as though it was 1959 and showeddramatic improvements in their hearing, memory, dexterity,appetite, and general well-being—Langer shows that the magicof rejuvenation and ongoing good health lies in being aware ofthe ways we mindlessly react to social and cultural cues.Examining the hidden decisions and vocabulary that shape themedical world (“chronic” versus “acute,” “cure” versus“remission”), the powerful physical effects of placebos, and theintricate but often defeatist ways we define our physical health,Langer challenges the idea that the limits we assume andimpose on ourselves are real. With only subtle shifts in ourthinking, in our language, and in our expectations, she tells us,we can begin to change the ingrained behaviors that sap health,optimism, and vitality from our lives.

Immensely readable and riveting, Counterclockwise offers atransformative and bold new paradigm: the psychology ofpossibility. A hopeful and groundbreaking book by an authorwho has changed how people all over the world think and feel,Counterclockwise is sure to join Mindfulness as a standardsource on new-century science and healing.

“Ellen Langer offers us brilliant insights into subtleties that holdus back in life, and shows the way to shining new possibilities.Counterclockwisewill change the way you see and think.”

— Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence

About the Author

ELLEN J. LANGER, Ph.D. is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is also therecipient of, among other numerous awards and honors, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award for DistinguishedContributions to Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Association, the Award forDistinguished Contributions of Basic Science to the Application of Psychology from the American Association ofApplied and Preventive Psychology, and the Adult Development and Aging Distinguished ResearchAchievement Award from the American Psychological Association. Langer’s trailblazing experiments in socialpsychology have earned her inclusion in The New York Times Magazine’s “Year in Ideas” issue and will soon be thesubject of a major motion picture.

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to f ind out. —William Wordsworth

There’s no way to turn back the clock or to fight the inevitable. We age and the vigor of youthbecomes only a memory as we are ravaged by time. Chronic illnesses take their toll, our healthand strength diminish accordingly, and the best we can do is graciously accept our fate. Oncesickness is upon us, we give ourselves over to modern medicine and hope for the best. Wecan’t intervene as time marches on. Or can we?

In the 1970s my colleague Judith Rodin and I conducted an experiment with nursing homeresidents. We encouraged one group of participants to find ways to make more decisions forthemselves. For example, they were allowed to choose where to receive visitors, and if andwhen to watch the movies that were shown at the home. Each also chose a houseplant to carefor, and they were to decide where to place the plant in their room, as well as when and howmuch to water it. Our intent was to make the nursing home residents more mindful, to helpthem engage with the world and live their lives more fully.

A second, control group received no such instructions to make their own decisions; they weregiven houseplants but told that the nursing staff would care for them. A year and a half later,we found that members of the first group were more cheerful, active, and alert, based on a variety of tests we had administered both before and after the experiment. Allowing for thefact that they were all elderly and quite frail at the start, we were pleased that they were alsomuch healthier: we were surprised, however, that less than half as many of the more engagedgroup had died than had those in the control group.

Over the next several years, I spent a lot of time thinking about what had happened. Ourexplanation was that the results were due to the power of making choices and the increasedpersonal control it affords. Although we couldn’t make an airtight case, subsequent researchwould bear out our original understanding. Our research had taken place at the beginning ofwhat was later termed the “New Age” movement and well before mind/body studies wereconducted in laboratories around the country. It raised a nagging question: “What is thenature of the link from the nonmaterial mind to the material body?” Examples of thisconnection are all around us. We see a rat and show signs of fear as our pulse races and sweatbreaks out on our skin; we think about losing a significant other and our blood pressureincreases; we watch someone vomit and we feel nauseous ourselves. While we easily seeevidence of the connection, it’s not well understood. Even we had been surprised: it seemedodd that simply asking people to make choices would result in the powerful consequencesthat our study showed. Subsequently, I realized that making choices results in mindfulness,and perhaps our surprise was because of the mindlessness we shared with most of the culture.I began to realize that ideas about mind/body dualism were just that, ideas, and a different,nondualist view of the mind and the body could be more useful. If we put the mind and thebody back together so that we are just one person again, then wherever we put the mind, wewould also put the body. If the mind is in a truly healthy place, the body would be as well—and so we could change our physical health by changing our minds.

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Selected for Common Reading at Lesley University

“Mindsight is the ability for the human mind to see itself. It isa powerful lens through which we can understand our innerlives with more clarity, transform the brain, and enhance ourrelationships with others.” —Dr. Daniel J. Siegel

Harvard-trained physician Dr. Siegel is one of therevolutionary global innovators in the integration of

brain science into the practice of psychotherapy. Using casehistories from his practice, he shows how, by following theproper steps, nearly everyone can learn how to focus theirattention on the internal world of the mind in a way that willliterally change the wiring and architecture of their brain.

Through his synthesis of a broad range of scientific researchwith applications to everyday life, Dr. Siegel has developednovel approaches that have helped hundreds of patients healthemselves from painful events in the past and liberatethemselves from obstacles blocking their happiness in thepresent.

“Dr. Siegel helps the reader understand how we can change ourdysfunctional habits of mind and become more flexible,adaptive, coherent, energized, and stable. He helps us see thatwe can rewire our own brains and become truly integrated,through personal understanding and, most important, throughmeaningful relationships with others.”

—Eugene Beresin, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

“In this brilliant and highly readable book, Dan Siegel combineshis prodigious knowledge of brain science, clinical psychologyand mindfulness with his immense capacity for original thinkingto develop a new and useful concept—mindsight. An intrepidnavigator of the vast sea inside us all, he maps the territory andoffers amazing insights into how to benefit from the journey. Hiswork will forever change the way we understand ourselves andour relationships.”

—Dr. Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia and Seeking Peace

About the Author

DANIEL J. SIEGEL, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medicaleducation at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinicalprofessor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, co-director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness ResearchCenter, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute.

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Chapter One

A Broken Brain, a Lost SoulThe Triangle of Well-Being

Barbara’s family might never have come for therapy if seven-year-old Leanne hadn’t stoppedtalking in school. Leanne was Barbara’s middle child, between Amy, who was fourteen, andTommy, who was three. They had all taken it hard when their mother was in a near-fatal caraccident. But it wasn’t until Barbara returned home from the hospital and rehabilitation centerthat Leanne became “selectively mute.” Now she refused to speak with anyone outside thefamily—including me.

In our first weekly therapy sessions, we spent our time in silence, playing some games, doingpantomimes with puppets, drawing, and just being together. Leanne wore her dark hair in asingle jumbled ponytail, and her sad brown eyes would quickly dart away whenever I lookeddirectly at her. Our sessions felt stuck, her sadness unchanging, the games we played repetitive.But then one day when we were playing catch, the ball rolled to the side of the couch andLeanne discovered my video player and screen. She said nothing, but the sudden alertness of herexpression told me her mind had clicked on to something.

The following week Leanne brought in a videotape, walked over to the video machine, and putit into the slot. I turned on the player and her smile lit up the room as we watched her mothergently lift a younger Leanne up into the air, again and again, and then pull her into a huge, en-folding hug, the two of them shaking with laughter from head to toe. Leanne’s father, Ben, hadcaptured on film the dance of communication between parent and child that is the hallmark oflove: We connect with each other through a give-and-take of signals that link us from the insideout. This is the joy-filled way in which we come to share each other’s minds.

Next the pair swirled around on the lawn, kicking the brilliant yellow and burnt-orange leavesof autumn. The mother-daughter duet approached the camera, pursed lips blowing kisses intothe lens, and then burst out in laughter. Five-year-old Leanne shouted, “Happy birthday,Daddy!” at the top of her lungs, and you could see the camera shake as her father laughed alongwith the ladies in his life. In the background Leanne’s baby brother, Tommy, was napping in hisstroller, snuggled under a blanket and surrounded by plush toys. Leanne’s older sister, Amy, wasoff to the side engrossed in a book.

“That’s how my mom used to be when we lived in Boston,” Leanne said suddenly, the smiledropping from her face. It was the first time she had spoken directly to me, but it felt more likeI was overhearing her talk to herself. Why had Leanne stopped talking?

It had been two years since that birthday celebration, eighteen months since the family movedto Los Angeles, and twelve months since Barbara suffered a severe brain injury in heraccident—a head-on collision. Barbara had not been wearing her seat belt that evening as shedrove their old Mustang to the local store to get some milk for the kids. When the drunk driverplowed into her, her forehead was forced into the steering wheel. She had been in a coma forweeks following the accident.

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Why has American psychoanalysis been relegated to themargins of American mental health care? In this

masterful summing up of three decades of experience as apsychoanalytic editor and publisher, Paul Stepansky tells thestory of a once cohesive discipline that has splintered intorivalrous “part-fields” and now struggles to survive in a post-analytic world of cognitive-behavioral interventions, brieftherapy, psychopharmacology, and managed care.Simultaneously, it is a cautionary tale of the inevitablemarginalization of any profession that resists integration intothe scientific mainstream of its time and place.

Beyond its self-evident importance to psychoanalysts andother proponents of “talking” therapy, Psychoanalysis at theMargins provides an in-depth case study of the role of books,journals, and publishing in the rise and fall of a historicallyinsular profession. For Stepansky, the near-demise ofpsychoanalytic publishing in America is a microcosm of thecrisis of small scholarly and professional publishing in an erathat has witnessed the ascendancy of internet chat groups,online seminars, Amazon.com, and electronic journalsubscriptions.

Positioning present-day psychoanalysis as an alternativehealing modality, Stepansky explores the initiatives that haveenabled other alternative professions to survive and even thrivein the face of mainstream opposition. Is it possible, he asks,that the lessons of alternative medicine can guidepsychoanalysis to an “optimal marginality” that draws themainstream to it? Pursuing pathways to this goal, Stepanskyenjoins analysts to undertake a host of initiatives in the publicinterest that bring analytic knowledge to bear in those contextswhere it can do the most good.

“Stepansky has produced a carefully researched, cogentlyargued, clearly written, magnificent book with a great manyoriginal ideas. It is a work that everyone interested inpsychoanalysis—therapists, patients and laymen alike—should read. As his many telling arguments are absorbed,psychoanalysis should never be the same. The book, in my view,is destined to become a classic.

—Louis Breger, Ph.D., American Imago

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PAUL E. STEPANSKY, Ph.D., was managing director of The Analytic Press from 1984–2006. He has beenpersonal editor to Heinz Kohut, Margaret Mahler, and other psychoanalytic luminaries past and present, and nowgives workshops and seminars on clinical writing and writing for publication. A Yale-trained historian of ideas,Stepansky explores topics in the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and is especially interested in theinterface of psychiatry and medicine in America.

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Who among us hasn’t been intrigued and fascinated by Freud and psychoanalysis? I certainlyhave. I began reading Freud when I was a teenager, studied Freud in college and graduateschool, where I specialized in the history of psychoanalysis, and ended up running a smallpublishing company that specialized in psychoanalytic books and journals.

And that’s where my troubles with the field began. For I soon learned there really isn’t a single discipline called “psychoanalysis” but rather a pot pourri of different “schools” ofpsychoanalysis. And the members of these different schools didn’t act like members of a singleprofession. They spent a great deal of time and energy warring among themselves, belittlingthe theories and techniques of colleagues who espoused different viewpoints, sometimesdeclaring that these colleagues were not psychoanalysts at all. Publishing the books andarticles of these highly trained, caring, but combative people landed me in the middle of manydisputes about different theories and treatment approaches. Sometimes, sadly, the disputeswere personal. Often I felt like the manager of a sports team composed only of star playersfrom different countries, each of whom learned to play a different version of the game andrefused to cede the merit of any one else’s version. Indeed, my players were hard-pressed toadmit they all played the same sport.

I think Psychoanalysis at the Margins will be a revelatory experience for undergraduate andgraduate students because it is a book about the soft underbelly of a discipline that neverrealized its promise to become a science of mind. Part of my story has to do with publishing.I know of no other book that charts the rise and fall of a discipline by examining itspublications (and how well they sold) over a 60-year period. The book also introducesstudents to the politics of academic publishing—with how the publishing of ostensiblyscholarly books and journals is an all-too-human affair, fraught with rivalries, conflicts, andpersonal animosities.

Of course, I was not only a publisher but also a historian of the field in which I published. SoI have sought to place my experience in a broader context by explaining how other mentalhealth professions, such as psychology and psychiatry, have been absorbed into what ThomasKuhn famously termed “normal science,” whereas psychoanalysis has resisted becoming partof the mainstream for virtually all of its history. The irony, of course, is that Freud continues tohave a shaping impact on our culture, and his trenchant insights about the human conditiontouch all our lives.

Students in psychology, sociology, anthropology, American studies, and history of science andmedicine will find here a case study of a discipline that failed to mature in the manner ofother disciplines. My story leads me to consider the role of science in psychology and medi-cine, the emergence and disappearance of different healing professions, and, perhaps most intriguingly, the stories of seemingly nonscientific professions that refused to disappear andlive on, even prosper, at the margins of the scientific mainstream. I have in mind osteopathy,homeopathy, chiropractic, mindbody healing, and other fields that jointly make up what wenow refer to as complementary/alternative medicine. Perhaps psychoanalysis will follow theirexample and learn how to survive and even thrive “at the margins.” I for one hope so.

Paul E. Stepansky, Ph.D.



Deborah Tannen, the internationally acclaimed expert oncommunication and bestselling author analyzes conversational

style and how it meshes or clashes with the styles of others. Theanalyses offered in this text make it appropriate for courses inCommunications, Psychology, and Sociology.

“Deborah Tannen shows us why conversations, and consequentlyfriendships, marriages and even jobs, can break down even with the bestintentions, and how linguistics can come to the rescue.”

—Jeremy Campbell, author of the Grammatical Man

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DEBORAH TANNEN, Ph.D. is University Professor and Professor ofLinguistics at Georgetown University and author of many books andarticles about how the language of everyday conversation affectsrelationships. She has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at PrincetonUniversity and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in theBehavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, following a term in residence atthe Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The recipient offive honorary doctorates, she is a member of the PEN/FaulknerFoundation Board of Directors.

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THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT!How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks RelationshipsBy Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.

YOU WERE ALWAYS MOM’S FAVORITE!Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their LivesBy Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.

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I am always deeply gratified when professors and students tell me that my books, based on yearsof research but written for a general audience, are popular and effective in college classes.Students love course readings in which they see themselves, and You Were Always Mom’s Favorite!includes many examples provided by young people just like them: students in my classes whowrote about their own lives. This makes the books personally engaging and readily accessible.Though the examples are of sisters, those who have brothers—and those who are brothers—seethemselves, too. Even only children can identify, because the illustrations of sibling relationshipsapply to all family relationships.

Through examples of everyday interactions among siblings, students gain insight intosophisticated sociolinguistic concepts, such as the two dynamics of hierarchy versus equality onone hand, and closeness versus distance on the other. Closeness is built into sibling relationshipsby dint of shared family and physical proximity. And power relations are also built in, as olderones tell younger ones what to do. At the same time, older ones are protective of and take care ofyounger ones—and this dramatizes how closeness and hierarchy are inextricably linked.

Complex insights into language and communication are easier for students to grasp whenillustrated by examples in which they see themselves. Consider concepts like “framing” and“metamessages”. A message lies in the meaning of words but metamessages are meanings aboutrelationships that are communicated by the way something is said or the fact that it is said—andmetamessages are what people react to. When an older sibling is protective of a younger one, itsends a metamessage of caring but also implies that the younger is less capable. Another way tosay this is that it frames the younger as worthy of care but also as less competent.“Metamessages”, “framing”, the interrelationship of hierarchy and connection—these and otherconcepts come alive for students when illustrated with examples from their contemporaries.

Another reason, I’m told, why students like this book is that I include many examples of myselfand my own two sisters. Students appreciate seeing the author of a textbook as a person they canrelate to. Even the title evokes immediate recognition because so many have heard or said it.

You Were Always Mom’s Favorite! is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines: psychology,where it adds a focus on language; anthropology and sociology, sources of many of the terms andconcepts I develop; interpersonal communication, where the focus on family brings processes ofcommunication closer to home; women’s studies, where the older/younger power dynamicprovides a counterbalance to theories that emphasize the tendency of women to downplayhierarchy; English composition, because it provides material on which academic writing canreadily be based; and of course my own discipline, linguistics, where it introduces the fieldknown as discourse analysis and provides insight into the workings of language in interaction.

This book can be a companion volume to my previous books that are popular as textbooks:That’s Not What I Meant!, which introduces the concept of conversational style and shows how itaffects relationships; You Just Don’t Understand, about women’s and men’s use of language; andThe Argument Culture, which examines the way we communicate in public. As with those earliertitles, students particularly value having read You Were Always Mom’s Favorite! in college courses,because the concepts they learn and the insights they gain prove useful in their daily lives—and,I am told, remain relevant and useful long after they graduate.

Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.




“Thinking about life through the lens of the hidden brain canbe an addictive parlor game; it also happens to be one of themost important things we can do as human beings.” —Shankar Vedantam

The “hidden brain” is journalist Shankar Vedantam’sshorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional

responses, and cognitive processes that happen outside ourconscious awareness but have a decisive effect on humanbehavior. The hidden brain has its finger on the scale when wemake all our most complex and important decisions: It decideswhom we fall in love with, whether we should convictsomeone of murder, and which way to run when someone yells“Fire!” It explains why we can become riveted by some storiesand bored by others. The hidden brain can also be deliberatelymanipulated to convince people to vote against their owninterests, or even become suicide terrorists.

Shankar Vedantam takes readers on a tour of this phenome-non and explores its consequences. Using original reportingthat combines the latest scientific research with compulsivelyreadable narratives from the American campaign trail, to ter-rorist indoctrination camps, to the World Trade Center on9/11, Vedantam illuminates the dark recesses of our mindswhile making an original argument about how we can com-pensate for our blind spots—and what happens when we don’t.

“A disturbing but enlightening look at the power of theunconscious over human action and decision-making . . . A tourinto dark realms of the psyche by a personable guide.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“A Washington Post science writer, Vedantam explores thefindings of social psychologists about unconscious bias.Recounting people’s stories, he grips attention immediately.”

—Booklist

“In The Hidden Brain, one of America’s best science journalistsdescribes how our unconscious minds influence everything fromcriminal trials to charitable giving, from suicide bombers topresidential elections. The Hidden Brain is a smart and engagingexploration of the science behind the headlines—and of thelittle man behind the screen. Don’t miss it.”

—Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness

About the Author

SHANKAR VEDANTAM is a national science writer at The Washington Post. Between 2006 and 2009, Vedantamauthored the weekly Department of Human Behavior column in The Washington Post. He is the winner of severaljournalism awards. Vedantam is a 2009–2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, 120 employees at a financial trading firmcalled Keefe, Bruyette & Woods were spread across the 88th and 89th floor of theSouth Tower of the World Trade Center. When the first plane hit the North Tower,the employees in the South Tower had a 16-minute window in which to escapebefore the second plane struck their building. Why did the employees on the 88thfloor flee their desks and escape, while the employees on the 89th floor stayed behindat their desks and perished?

I wrote the puzzle of the South Tower like a thriller—a New York Times reviewerreported being so gripped by the tale on a transatlantic flight that she failed to hear aflight attendant’s warning about a fast-approaching food cart—but the storytelling isjust a means to an end. My goal in writing The Hidden Brain was to entice studentsand readers to join me on a journey of intellectual discovery. The last decade has seenan extraordinary flowering of ideas in psychology, sociology, economics, politicalscience, philosophy and neuroscience. The insights generated in each of these fieldsare fascinating in their own right, but what intrigues me is how tendrils from thesedifferent gardens have grown increasingly interconnected. Psychology meets historywhen The Hidden Brain shows how common threads link the Japanese Kamikazefighters in World War II, the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers in the 1980s, and jihadi groupstoday. Sociological research melds with psychological studies about the bystandereffect in “The Siren’s Call,” the chapter detailing the World Trade Center puzzle.Economics meets International Relations when The Hidden Brain shows howterrorist groups function like exclusive clubs.

I have been invited to talk about the book in high schools and colleges across thecountry, on National Public Radio and The Tavis Smiley Show. When Harry Reidgloated about how Barack Obama’s light skin was an electoral advantage, I wrote anop-ed for The New York Times about unconscious intra-racial prejudice, or colorism—insights like this from The Hidden Brain speak incessantly to news events, and makecourses feel relevant to the actual lives of students. Public health students, psychiatryresidents and law students realize they are on the same page when the book explainshow America has gotten the debate over guns backward (and why we need to worrymuch more about suicide than homicide). Philosophy students learn something aboutthe nature of morality from my account of the strange neurological disease known asfrontotemporal dementia. Political science students who track presidential campaignsrealize they have much to learn from research into the racial biases of—I’m notmaking this up—kindergartners.

If you want your students to get excited about ideas with enormous real-worldconsequences, please consider putting The Hidden Brain on their reading lists. Youwon’t regret it: Friends at universities across North America tell me my book is arm-deep on the “reserved” lists at libraries. And at Harvard, where I spent the last year asa Nieman Fellow, the good people at Widener Library have regretfully informed methat The Hidden Brain has gone missing from the shelves.

Shankar Vedantam




Mark Vonnegut first experienced a series of psychoticbreaks as a young man while living on a commune after

college. He was treated with electrotherapy, Thorazine andmassive doses of vitamins to “cure” his schizophrenia. Whilehe recovered in the family home in Massachusetts, he begancoursework toward becoming a doctor. Though he excelled athis studies, Mark’s personal life was often unsettled: hisparents’ relationship had dissolved, his own relationship withhis father was strained, his marriage was in trouble, his sonconstantly had bronchitis, and chilled mugs and wine futureswere a pretty mask on alcoholism. And then, in the mid-80s,the voices returned. After attempting to dive through a closedthird-floor window, he awoke in restraints at Mass GeneralHospital, where he had trained and worked. Mark Vonnegutoffers this stirring account of the past thirty-five years of hislife—from Harvard Medical school and a brilliant pediatricscareer to the terrifying return of mental illness—while alsoreflecting on his unique New England childhood as the onlyson of a not-yet-famous Kurt Vonnegut.

“Two not unrelated challenges—being novelist Kurt Vonnegut’sson and suffering episodes of schizophrenia—shape, but don'tconfine, this mordantly witty, slightly subversive memoir. . . .Vonnegut vividly conveys the bizarre logic of the voices anddelusions that occasionally plagued him, which he finds notmuch nuttier than what passes for normalcy. (He’s especiallyincensed by the insurance bureaucracies he thinks are ruiningmedicine.) His father’s son, he writes with a matter-of-factabsurdism—“The patient who just died lies there quietly andeveryone else stops rushing around trying to do somethingabout it”—champions misfits, and attacks the system. All hisown are Vonnegut’s hard-won insights into the value of ahumble, useful life picked up from pieces.”

—Publishers Weekly

About the Author

MARK VONNEGUT, M.D., is the only son of the late Kurt Vonnegut and the author of The Eden Express: A Memoirof Insanity (1975, ALA Notable Book) as well as the introduction to his father’s first collection of posthumousessays, Armageddon in Retrospect (Putnam, 2008). He subsequently studied medicine at Harvard Medical Schooland later came to the conclusion that he actually had bipolar disorder. He is currently a pediatrician in Quincy,Massachusetts.

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Chapter 1

A Brief Family History It’s good to have a sixth gear, but watch out for the seventh one. If you think too well outside the box, youmight find yourself in a little room without much in it.

The arts are not extracurricular.

One hundred thirty-nine years ago, my great-grandfather Bernard Vonnegut, fifteen years old,described as less physically robust than his two older brothers, probably asthmatic, started cryingwhile doing inventory at the family hardware store. When his parents asked what was wrong, hesaid he didn’t know but he thought he wanted to be an artist.

“I don’t want to sell nails,” he sobbed.

Maybe his parents should have beaten him for being ungrateful, but they wanted their son to behappy and the business was successful enough that they could hire someone else to do inventory.He became an apprentice stonecutter and then went to Europe to study art and architecture. Hedesigned many buildings in Indianapolis that still stand today. He drew beautifully, madesculptures and furniture. He was also happily married and had three children, one of whom wasKurt senior, my grandfather, who was known as “Doc” and who also became an architect. Doccould also draw and paint and make furniture. He made wonderful chessboards, one of which hegave to me when I was nine.

When he was sixty, Doc was pulled over for not stopping at a stop sign. The cop was astonishedto notice that his driver’s license had expired twenty years earlier.

“So shoot me,” said Doc.

At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife’sbarbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, “It wasenough to have been a unicorn.” What he meant was that he got to do art. It was magic to himthat his hands and mind got to make wonderful things, that he didn’t have to be just another goator horse.

When I worked on the Harvard Medical School admissions committee, artistic achievementswere referred to as “extras.” The arts are not extra.

If my great-grandfather Bernard Vonnegut hadn’t started crying while doing inventory atVonnegut Hardware and hadn’t told his parents that he wanted to be an artist instead of sellingnails and if his parents hadn’t figured out how to help him make that happen, there are manybuildings in and around Indianapolis that wouldn’t have gotten built. Kurt senior wouldn’t havecreated paintings or furniture or carvings or stained glass. And Kurt junior, if he existed at all,would have been just another guy with PTSD—no stories, no novels, no paintings. And I, if Iexisted at all, would have been just another broken young man without a clue how to get up offthe floor.

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ANATOMY OF AN EPIDEMICMagic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and theAstonishing Rise of Mental Illness in AmericaBy Robert Whitaker

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In Anatomy of an Epidemic award-winning science and historywriter Robert Whitaker investigates, in the first book of its

kind, the merits of psychiatric medications through the prismof long-term results, asking the question: Why has the numberof disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the pasttwo decades?

During the past fifty years, when investigators looked at long-term outcomes, studies on various psychiatric drugs—includingthose used to treat depression, bipolar disorder and ADHD—have consistently found that these medications, for someparadoxical reason, increase the likelihood that people willbecome chronically ill, less able to function well, more prone tophysical illness.

Having given this shocking analysis of these findings, Whitakerthen asks why the results from these long-term studies beenkept from the public? He concludes with personal stories ofchildren and adults swept up in this epidemic, and reports oninnovative programs of psychiatric care in Europe and theUnited States that are producing good long-term outcomes.

“This is the most alarming book I’ve read in years. The approach isneither polemical nor ideologically slanted. Relying on medicalevidence and historical documentation, Whitaker builds his caselike a prosecuting attorney.”

—Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota and author of Better than Well:

American Medicine Meets the American Dream

“Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a profoundly troublingquestion: do psychiatric medications increase the likelihood thatpeople taking them, far from being helped, are more likely tobecome chronically ill? In making a compelling case that ourcurrent psychotropic drugs are causing as much—if not more—harm than good, Robert Whitaker reviews the scientific literaturethoroughly, demonstrating how much of the evidence is on hisside. There is nothing unorthodox here—this case is solid andevidence-backed. If psychiatry wants to retain its credibility withthe public, it will now have to engage with the scientific argumentat the core of this cogently and elegantly written book.”—David Healy, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University and

author of The Antidepressant Era and Let Them Eat Prozac

About the Author

ROBERT WHITAKER is the author of three previous books: Mad in America (named one of the best sciencebooks of 2002 by Discover magazine and one of the best history books of 2002 by the ALA), The Mapmaker’s Wife(a Booksense pick; named one of the best biographies of 2004 by the ALA), and On the Laps of Gods (which wonthe J. Anthony Lukas Prize for a work in progress). He worked as a newspaper reporter for eight years and was aKnight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

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A Modern Plague

“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinentanswer.” —Jacob Bronowski (1973)

This is the story of a medical puzzle. The puzzle is of a most curious sort, and yet one that we as asociety desperately need to solve, for it tells of a hidden epidemic that is diminishing the lives ofmillions of Americans, including a rapidly increasing number of children. The epidemic hasgrown in size and scope over the past five decades, and now disables 850 adults and 250 childrenevery day. And those startling numbers only hint at the true scope of this modern plague, for theyare only a count of those who have become so ill that their families or caregivers are newly eligibleto receive a disability check from the federal government.

Now, here is the puzzle.

As a society, we have come to understand that psychiatry has made great progress in treatingmental illness over the past fifty years. Scientists are uncovering the biological causes of mentaldisorders, and pharmaceutical companies have developed a number of effective medications forthese conditions. This story has been told in newspapers, magazines, and books, and evidence ofour societal belief in it can be found in our spending habits. In 2007, we spent $25 billion on anti-depressants and antipsychotics, and to put that figure in perspective, that was more than the grossdomestic product of Cameroon, a nation of 18 million people.

In 1999, U.S. surgeon general David Satcher neatly summed up this story of scientific progress ina 458-page report titled Mental Health. The modern era of psychiatry, he explained, could be saidto have begun in 1954. Prior to that time, psychiatry lacked treatments that could “preventpatients from becoming chronically ill.” But then Thorazine was introduced. This was the firstdrug that was a specific antidote to a mental disorder—it was an antipsychotic medication—and itkicked off a psychopharmacological revolution. Soon antidepressants and antianxiety agents werediscovered, and as a result, today we enjoy “a variety of treatments of well documented efficacy forthe array of clearly defined mental and behavioral disorders that occur across the life span,”Satcher wrote. The introduction of Prozac and other “ second-generation” psychiatric drugs, thesurgeon general added, was “stoked by advances in both neurosciences and molecular biology” andrepresented yet another leap forward in the treatment of mental disorders.

Medical students training to be psychiatrists read about this history in their textbooks, and thepublic reads about it in popular accounts of the field. Thorazine, wrote University of Torontoprofessor Edward Shorter, in his 1997 book, A History of Psychiatry, “initiated a revolution inpsychiatry, comparable to the introduction of penicillin in general medicine.” That was the start ofthe “psychopharmacology era,” and today we can rest assured that science has proved that thedrugs in psychiatry’s medicine cabinet are beneficial. “We have very effective and safe treatmentsfor a broad array of psychiatric disorders,” Richard Friedman, director of the psychopharmacologyclinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, informed readers of the New York Times on June 19,2007. Three days later, the Boston Globe, in an editorial titled “When Kids Need Meds,” echoedthis sentiment: “The development of powerful drugs has revolutionized the treatment of mentalillness.”

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In the fall of 1966, at a university in the Northeast, 350students signed up for a psychological survey on personal

development and happiness. In 1977, Susan KraussWhitbourne, then a young psychology professor, came acrossthe study and decided to expand it. She tracked down thestudy’s original participants and questioned them every decadeuntil she had forty years’ worth of data.

Now, in this groundbreaking book, Whitbourne reveals thefindings of this extensive project, a seminal piece of researchinto how people change over the course of their lifetimes. Theresults indicate something fascinating: No matter how old orhow content one might currently feel, it is never too late tosteer one’s life toward a greater sense of purpose andsatisfaction.

“This remarkable exploration into the core dimensions of humannature takes readers of all ages on a journey of liberation. Thepsychologically revolutionary ideas that flow through everychapter free us from simplistic pop-psych notions of ‘midlifecrises’ and confining age-based passages. We come to appreciatethe extraordinary fluidity of human nature as people mature andembark on life’s dynamic pathways, ideally toward personalfulfillment on triumphant or authentic paths. Emerging fromsolid, original research, The Search for Fulfillment’s sound,practical advice can transform your life. This is a must-read-nowbook.” —Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox

“In her groundbreaking new book, psychologist Susan KraussWhitbourne shows that the path to happiness comes in manyforms and can start at any point in our lives. Vividly portrayingthe lives of a group of baby boomers over a forty-year period,she draws lessons that compellingly illustrate that it’s never toolate to foster significant change in our own lives, and thatfulfillment is within the reach of each of us.” —Robert S. Feldman, associate dean and professor of psychology,University of Massachusetts Amherst; author of The Liar of Your Life

About the Author

SUSAN KRAUSS WHITBOURNE, Ph.D. is a pioneer in the study of adult development and has been leadingthe field for more than thirty years. She received her doctorate in psychology from Columbia University and iscurrently a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A licensed psychologist,Whitbourne has been interviewed and cited in numerous articles in publications including The New York Times,Newsweek, Redbook, and Glamour.

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It gives me great pleasure to tell you about my book, The Search for Fulfillment, whichis the culmination of my life-long search for answers about what causes people tochange in their adult years. As a young assistant professor, I dreamed of being able tochart the pathways of development by conducting a longitudinal study. Through acombination of good fortune and planning, and the willing cooperation of hundredsof participants, I was able to complete the study that forms the core of my book.

My goal in writing the book was to shed light on the myriad ways that people changethrough life while at the same time identifying systematic patterns to characterizethat change. As one of the early pioneers in the pedagogy of adult development andaging, I also hope that my book will be a valuable supplement to college courses inthe field. By giving students insight into the real changes that adults experience, thebook will educate them about development in adulthood. The book also willilluminate the research process for students. My observations about the researchparticipants form an important part of the book. The mystery and excitement thatcomes along with opening the questionnaires from participants tested 10, 20, andeven 35 years earlier is captured in my personal reflections that accompany the storiesof the people in my study.

As a scholar in this field, I have sought to educate readers about the importance ofseparating myths about midlife from the findings based on empirical data. Thenotion of a “midlife crisis,” long ago debunked as a myth by the scientific evidence onadult development, is one that I tackle head on in this book. I’ve showed why themyth persists but, more importantly, why it is a flawed notion. Along with the midlifecrisis, popular psychology portrays adulthood as a series of discrete stages punctuatedby decade marker points. In my book, I’ve shown that people develop in all kinds ofways in the years from late adolescence to midlife. I identify five pathways ofdevelopment, providing numerous examples to illustrate each. I’ve also provided“Action Plans” that show specific ways people can find a more fulfilling pathway if theone they’re on isn’t working for them anymore.

My book also has an inspiring message, one with which my students stronglyresonate: change is possible at any age. People can achieve their cherished goals nomatter how old they are or what they’ve done with their lives so far. I provideexamples both from the case studies in my book and the broader area of research onsuccessful aging to show that people’s ability to achieve fulfillment is virtuallyunlimited. As an instructor of large psychology courses covering the range from themassive introductory level lecture to advanced seminars, I have developed anunderstanding of the best ways to engage students in the learning process. This bookwill educate them about this very important subject, captivate their imaginations, andinspire them to find their own fulfillment.

Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D.




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