- Overview
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This book is about how to build a solid, inner, central axis and not be swayed, as explained by a psychologist.
- Book Intro
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"Why do I suffer often from needless reproach and self-contempt?" "How can I gain the love of others without losing my pride?" "I want to accept it as it is and love properly…" How can we handle and satisfy these desires of wanting to be recognized and understood by other people, hidden deep inside every body? Dr Yang Chang-soon, a psychologist, sets out to guide us to a "quite an okay me." If her former book, I Decided to Live Cranky, which sold 400,000 copies, was on how to reduce the scars formed during human relations, this book is about consolation and compliment, and the understanding and acceptance we need in our lives. These are the fundamental powers that bring inner balance and harmonization, and further, peace and stability. The author expects that when you have set up your central axis properly, you can assure yourself, and other people, that you are an "okay person." Like an experienced counselor famous for suggesting cause-based and realistic solutions, she guides us on our journey of forming comfortable human relations based on a strong foundation of self-esteem and self-conviction and rational social life, and further reaching a mature life, while calmly looking at each person's private desires and needs.
- About the Author
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Yang Chang-soon
Yang Chang-soon (F) is a psychiatrist and neurologist. She graduated from the College of Medicine at Yonsei University and received her PhD at the graduate school of the same university. She received her second PhD, with a dissertation grafting the taching of Book of Changes (or Zhouyi in Chinese) and Psychology from Sungkyunkwan University. She has held the positions of research lecturer at Yonsei University Health System, visiting professor for psychology at Habor-UCLA Medical Center in the USA and Vice President of Seoul Baekje Hospital. At present, she is CEO of Mind & Company: Dr Yang's Psychiatric Clinic for people wanting to form healthy human relationships. She is also a clinical professor of Psychiatry at Yonsei University's College of Medicine, and international member and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.