Sarah Luczaj takes a look at Thriving In Your Situation, an e-book by fellow contributor Evan Hadkins.

Congratulations, Sarah! Readers who have enjoyed the blog articles by British poet, translator and psychotherapist Sarah Luczaj might like to check out her new book of poetry, An Urgent Request.

How good are you at being unhappy? Need a little help? In his book “The Situation Is Hopeless but Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness”, psychologist Paul Watzlawick gives you all the advice you need. You can even use it to become happier, if only by smiling at all the crazy little ways humans have to keep misery alive.

Almost all the principles of traditional psychology are based upon the attempts of various theorists to explain a phenomenon rare for its time and almost totally unheard of in modern times. Character disturbance — not neurosis — is the pressing psychological reality of our day and simply can’t be understood or dealt with using traditional paradigms.

Psychiatrist Candida Fink and freelance author Joe Kraynak, co-authors of ‘Bipolar Disorder for Dummies’, have launched a new blog at Dr Fink’s site. They share self-help tips, treatment strategies, and more. It’s well worth a visit if you or someone you love has been affected by bipolar disorder.

With more than one hundred pages of annotated entries covering books and journal articles, our popular mental health research library has been freshly updated and re-organised and now has a new home at CounsellingBooks.com.

Self-Help is a massive and growing industry. Are these books really selling the secrets to happiness, thinness and wealth? Or are they making profits from the comforting illusion that these things are really for sale?