Nossrat Peseschkian 
Positive Psychotherapy of Everyday Life [EPUB ebook] 
A Self-Help Guide for Individuals, Couples and Families with 250 Case Stories

The authors model of positive psychotherapy is a synthesis of psychodynamics and behavior therapy that focuses on the positive aspects of conflicts and sufferings. He offers transcultural perspectives in the form of proverbs, myths, and fables in which the patient may recognize himself in allegorical terms and thus be able to establish a new form of self-confidence and security.

Positive Psychotherapy of Everyday Life illustrates day-to-day conflicts that occur in partnerships, how they can arise from misunderstandings, and how laymen can deal with them.

Circa l’autore

Professor Nossrat Peseschkian, MD (1933–2010), a German board-certified specialist in psychiatry, neurology, psychosomatic medicine, and psychotherapy, was born in Iran and lived in Germany since 1954. After graduating from Frankfurt University, he received his postgraduate psychotherapeutic training in Germany, Switzerland, and United States.

Besides his daily work in his psychosomatic and psychotherapeutic private clinic in Wiesbaden, Germany (1969–2000), he was an associate professor for psychotherapy at the Academy of Continuing Medical Education of the State Medical Association in Hesse since 1974.

He is the founder of positive psychotherapy, a humanistic psychodynamic method based on a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach. Positive psychotherapy has been introduced by Professor Peseschkian in seminars and lectures at universities and medical centers in more than seventy countries worldwide.

Professor Peseschkian was the founding director of the Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy, a licensed postgraduate institute for medical doctors and psychologists, and the founding president of the World Association for Positive Psychotherapy (WAPP) and the German Association for Positive Psychotherapy (DGPP).

The author’s model of positive psychotherapy is a synthesis of psychodynamics and behavior therapy that focuses on the positive aspects of conflicts and sufferings. He offers transcultural perspectives in the form of proverbs, myths, and fables in which the patient may recognize himself in allegorical terms and thus be able to establish a new form of self-confidence and security.

Positive Psychotherapy of Everyday Life illustrates day-to-day conflicts that occur in partnerships, how they can arise from misunderstandings, and how laymen can deal with them.