This book explores the transformative power of appreciation, providing a five-step approach to developing an appreciative mindset. It covers how appreciation can positively impact relationships, work, health, and more, offering tips and research to support its benefits.
In this influential book, Thomas S. Szasz challenges the legitimacy of psychiatry, arguing that the concept of mental illness is logically absurd and has harmful consequences. He contends that psychiatrists absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions by diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness. Szasz also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the overreach of psychiatry into modern life. The book includes a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, along with two bonus essays in the 50th anniversary edition[2][3][4].
The Brain Warrior's Way, written by Daniel G. Amen and Tana Amen, provides a detailed plan to optimize brain health and overall well-being. The book focuses on creating healthy habits, including a brain-healthy diet, avoiding neurotoxins, and incorporating practices like meditation and continuous learning. It also includes over 100 simple and delicious recipes to support brain health. The authors emphasize the importance of mastering one's brain to prevent diseases such as Alzheimer's and depression, and to reverse aging. The book offers a 14-day program with a journal and checklist to help readers implement these changes effectively[1][2][3].
If your brain makes you ‘you’, how can you treat your brain so that you are the best possible version of you?
In this new episode Steven sits down again with world-leading psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist, Dr. Daniel Amen.
Dr. Daniel Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics, which has the world’s largest database of 225,000 brain scans for psychiatry, he is also the founder of BrainMD, a company specialising in brain-directed supplements. Dr. Amen has provided brain scans for celebrities such as Bella Hadid and Justin Bieber, and is a 12-time New York Times best-selling author.
In this conversation Dr. Amen and Steven discuss topics, such as:
- His aim of creating a revolution in brain health
- Why brain and not mental disorders are the key issue
- Depression comes from brain health
- How optimising your brain will optimise your life
- The difference between physical trauma and emotional trauma
- Why playing racket sports will make you live longer
- The scan of Steven’s brain
- Steven’s ADHD and how to live with ADHD
- Why orange juice can make your brain worse
- The importance of blood flow to the brain
- How caffeine and nicotine constricts blood flow to the brain
- When you stop learning your brain starts dying
- How loneliness accelerates dementia
- Depression doubling the risk of Alzheimer's in women
- Why he doesn’t believe in the power of positive thinking
- Screen time creating anxiety and depression
- How sleep cleans the brain
- Sugars damaging impact on the brain
- Why not flossing can make you depressed
- How your body wash is poisoning you
- Ways to stop negative thinking
- The impact of certain fatty foods on reducing Alzheimer’s
- How weight gain is making you dumb
You can purchase Dr. Amen’s most recent book, ‘Change Your Brain Every Day: Simple Daily Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Memory, Moods, Focus, Energy, Habits, and Relationships’, here: https://amzn.to/40uCGhQ
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