Self-help books can help you resolve your problems and fears. However, there are 4 considerations about self-help books that you should know:
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1) Can they help you?
On the shelves of bookstores there is no shortage self-help books: good's and bad's. In order for a self-help book to help you, you must choose a well-known author, although you must not discard the idea of reading an unknown author, but you must learn to separate the straw from the trash.
It is also important that you choose a subject in which you lag in order to enhance that ability that you need to raise your quality of life.
2) They help you calm down and keep you company.
A good self-help book helps you see things differently when you need it most. As you read it, you change your negative and catastrophic thoughts about what worries you for solutions and more positive views of the problem.
You must have a positive attitude towards the book because if you read it from a critical and self-destructive perspective it will not help you at all.
3) Look for new forms of behavior.
Good self-help books teach you to see life from another perspective and teach you to act in a more appropriate way with what is happening to you. For example, a depressed person can choose a book that teaches him how to cope with this disease and what steps are the most beneficial to get out of it.
4) Recommendations.
Throughout my life I have read a large number of self-help books and I could recommend some titles. However, I am going to add a list from a psychologist that I trust a lot as I follow his books and articles:
1) Your incorrect zones. Dr Dyer. Edit. Grijalbo. Barcelona.
2) Autogenic training, concentrative self-relaxation. Shultz, JM
3) Psychology: Mind and Behavior. Mª Luisa Sanz de Acedo, Milagros Pollán and Emilio Garrido. Ed .: Desclée De Brouwer. Bilbao.
4) Loneliness. R. Miquel. Ed .: Today's Topics.
5) The crisis of adulthood. Sheehy, G. Ed: Grijalbo.
6) How not to be a perfect woman. Libby Purves. Ed .: Paidós.
7) I'm fine, you're fine. Harris Thomas. Ed .: Grijalbo.
8) Positive mental attitude. Stone, W. Ed .: Grijalbo.
9) Don't say yes when you want to say no. Baer. Edit .: Grijalbo.
10) To always be well. Harris. Edit .: Grijalbo.
11) Body and soul. Lain Entralgo, P. Edit .: Espasa Universidad.
12) The Confessions. San Agustin. Edit .: Words.
13) The sky is the limit. Dyer, W. Edit .: Grijalbo.
14) Your magic zones. Dyer, W. Edit .: Grijalbo.
15) Beyond freedom and human dignity. Skinner, FB Edit .: Martínez-Roca.
16) How to live well as a couple. Llanos, E. Edit .: Grijalbo.
17) How to achieve your goals successfully. Brothers, J. Edit .: Grijalbo.
18) All Those Unbearable People: A Survival Guide To Dealing With Those People Who Make Our Life Impossible. Gavilán, Fco. Edit .: Edaf.
19) The door of hope. Juan Antonio Vallejo-Nájera. Ed. Rial, Edit. Planet.
20) Emotional intelligence Dr. Goleman. Edit. Kairos.
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