Books by Paul Pearsall and Complete Book Reviews
Paul Pearsall, Author . Basic $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-465-05486-2
Kudos to Pearsall (The Pleasure Prescription
) for arguing against the "platitudes of self-empowerment" that dominate the self-help bookshelves. Their relentlessly upbeat tone and unrealistic idea of happiness will only make you feel worse,...
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Paul Pearsall, Author . HCI $19.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-7573-0585-6
Neurobiologist Pearsall, author of The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
, presents another no-nonsense guide to better living, this time focusing on the importance of a sense of awe. Once again challenging the popular “culture of...
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Paul Pearsall, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-385-24459-6
Author of Super Marital Sex and Super Immunity , psychiatrist Pearsall here emphasizes the rewards of ``joyology,'' describing attitudes that can help one slough off depression and ennui. There is a specific ``Joy message'' in individual chapters...
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Paul Pearsall, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-385-26005-3
The author of Superimmunity and Super Marital Sex here explores the thesis that there is power in family relationships to promote healthy human development. From his clinical practice, he chooses five families who illustrate ways that ``being family
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Paul Pearsall, Author Inner Ocean Publishing $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-1-930722-09-5
Clinical psychologist Paul Pearsall (The Heart's Code) believes success and how people define and pursue it can destroy personal health, ruin marriages and create feelings of loneliness and isolation. He criticizes the instinct for executives and
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Paul Pearsall, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-76798-3
By following 10 ``Miracle Marriage'' laws, those who have lost the rapture of first love can now evolve ``a new feeling of mutual devotion . . . beyond their wildest dreams,'' asserts popular TV-show family therapist Pearsall ( Super Marital Sex )....
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Paul Pearsall, Author Crown Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59440-7
Pearsall ( The 10 Laws of Lasting Loves ) believes that an intimate, loving relationship exerts a quantifiably positive effect on health. He studied at the Kinsey Institute in the early 1970s, later founding his own treatment center for sexual...
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