A Year to Change Your Mind: Ideas from the Therapy Room to Help You Live Better

Psychology underpins  everything we do, determining the decisions we make, the relationships  we build, the roles we play and the places we live, and our behaviour is  further influenced by the changing seasons, encouraging many of us to  fall into unhelpful patterns again and again each year.

In A YEAR  TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, consultant clinical psychologist Dr Lucy Maddox  explains how psychological processes thread through our lives,  pinpointing those issues most frequently encountered in each month, and  shows us how by reflecting upon past experiences, both joyful and  painful, and considering evidence-based ideas from the realm of  psychology, we can learn to live a more thoughtful, positive life that  better prepares us for the future.

From the tendency to lack  motivation in January and to experience red-hot anger in the heat of  August, to the weight of expectation associated with that back-to-school  feeling in September and the pressure to enjoy the December holiday  season, we're shown recognisable features of behaviour over the course  of the year. In sharing with us the most useful psychology ideas the  author has learned in her 15 years as a clinical psychologist - ones she  uses in her own life, and returns to time and time again with people  who have come to see her for therapy - she provides plenty to think  about that we too can put into practice to improve our own lives.