When Happiness is not Enough?
Quick Overview
What do you need to become happier? It may be the opposite to what you think!
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Health Professional Review
Dr Chris Skellet, a local Dunedin Clinical Psychologist talks about the “pleasure/achievement” principle in his book When Happiness is Not Enough.
While not evidence-based our book reviewer Jodie Black, Counselling Psychologist at the University of Otago says that “The recommendations in this book do align with other well studied approaches and compliments approaches in CBT and Positive psychology”.
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