Carol Craig is the Centre's Chief Executive. She is author of The Scots' Crisis of Confidence, Creating Confidence: A Handbook for Professionals Working with Young People, The Tears that Made the Clyde: Well-being in Glasgow and The Great Takeover: How materialism, the media and markets now dominate our lives. Her latest book is Hiding in Plain Sight: Exploring Scotland's ill health. She is Commissioning editor for the Postcards from Scotland series. Carol blogs on confidence, well-being, inequality, every day life and some of the great challenges of our time. The views she expresses are her own unless she specifically states that they reflect the Centre's thinking.
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Clark Sorley Joined: 20/01/2007 Comment Posted: 20/03/2007 11:59 |
I had high hopes for Richard Layard's book on happiness, it being rare for someone in the political world to be arguing for the psychological perspective as he is. But I was disappointed.
With Freud, Jung, Maslow, Laing et al you get a sense of thinkers steeped in the complexity of the human psyche. They have contributed insight of immense value to the culture. Layard by comparison is facile. His premise is essentially Bentham's utilitarianism restated but not very well argued. Certainly Layard is coming from a background in economics so perhaps his lightweight social-psychology is forgivable. But 'Happiness' is written at a time when the case for mental health is pressing and is in need of something with much more flare and originality. What we get here is little better than Oliver James. To anyone believing in the value of emotional intelligence (surely the bedrock of a happy society) I suggest John MacMurray's 'Reason & Emotion' written in the 1930s. It is powerful and astonishingly prescient. MacMurray was a more worthy influence on Blair than I suspect Professor Layard could ever be on Gordon Brown. |
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leylafetihi Joined: 19/10/2007 Comment Posted: 20/10/2007 14:11 |
I am a teacher working with university students in Istanbul. To protect well being and health I think we need to get used to thinking positive first. Then in my opininon we need to read a lot of books.........do sports..........have hobbies..........deal with art..........we need to discover our own unique relaxation method...........nature is very important.........animals.......feeding them, taking care of them..........anger management is important..........learning to let go...........building our own unique personalities..........instead of competing, team work can teach all of us more...........try to achieve self actualization........giving small gifts to ourselves and other..........having meaningful interpersonal relationships.........discovering the real meaning of the word "care".........helping others feel valued and valuable...........social service.............contributing to society and the world in general...........voluntary work........resting..........having a balance in our personal and professinal lives.........asking "what do I want really"..........asking the question "what makes me feel comfortable inside"......traveling, respecting and accepting human beings..........not believing in hurting the feelings of individuals..........independence...........our home-a wonderful protection zone, believing in empowerment..........reading body language..........hearing silent messages of joy and sorrow........asking "what makes me happy"...........asking "how can I contribute".......internet..........ordering books..........honesty..........uniqueness............tolerance..........cooperation............value-clarification........studying at school.........eating healthy food............desserts..........clothes, fashion...........a nice parfume.........make-up...........hair style..........decorations........accessories..........work and holiday balance..........children.........laughter..........tears........smiling.......... These are some of the ways we may think about while we are trying to discover the ways of "well being" and "health"..........
Leyla Fetihi 20/10/2007 |
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