This (PDF) eBook by Dr. William J. Knaus is available as a free download and AddictionInfo is gratefull to Bill Knaus for making this book available to everyone. How to Conquer Your Frustrations shows you how to accomplish what you want in life, and how to apply revolutionary stress-reducing strategies to rid yourself of destructive habits -- smoking and overeating, among others -- and of impatience, worry, depression, and boredom.

"Exceptionally clear and highly informative.… Almost any reader who is interested in changing can distinctly benefit from reading—and unprocrastinatingly using!—this book." —Albert Ellis, Ph.D. Get more out of life. For over twenty-five years, Dr. William J. Knaus’s proven methods have helped people beat depression, face new challenges, love and be loved, and confront problems more effectively. Now you can put his powerful techniques to work for yourself and finally achieve real change in your life.

Book Description: Encourages patients to practice introspective methods and rely on therapy only as an occasional or last resort. It demonstrates how underlying philosophical ideas have an impact on everyday life. It shows people how to avoid the dangers of most contemporary therapies and to rely on their own judgment when facing psychological problems.

Do you use substances or engage in compulsive activities to regulate your mood? Do you reach for something sweet, a couple of drinks, or a pack of cigarettes after a difficult day because you can't unwind without them? Do you race to the stores to spend away the day's frustrations or run around in circles taking more time to get less done? If these self-defeating habits sound familiar, Emotional Sobriety will shed light on why and how these coping mechanisms threaten your health and impact resilience.

Psychologist Seligman ( Learned Optimism ) here examines common psychological disorders according to their biological and societal, or learned, components. Most enlightening are his analyses of the effectiveness of relaxation, meditation, psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies in the treatment of anxiety, which, along with depression and anger, he claims, can largely be controlled by disciplined effort.

Julie Morgenstern has written an organizing book that covers a new way of looking at the task of organizing effectively without labeling or blaming the person behind the lack of organization. Rather, she says, people who don't organize just never learned how to organize, through no fault of their own--after all, it's not a skill that's taught in school.

Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.

Categorized into personal safety, getting organized, stocking up, home maintenance, housework, flowers and plants, social life, correspondence, death, children, moving, travel, health, the law, your money, professional life, your computer, and your car, many of the lists in this book consist, as she points out, of commonsense advice. Others, though, are less obvious.

The author of the bestselling "How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends" offers easy-to-read advice about how to have meaningful, productive, and satisfying conversations with friends, lovers, spouses, parents, children, and other family members.

Martin Blinder, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco - With a series of incisive insights Michael Edelstein cuts through the psychological jargon and makes clear how all of us can effect powerful changes in our psyches, in our lives and in the lives of our loved ones.