HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS AT WORK, HOME AND PLAY
Book ID/图书代码： 01200012B57060
English Summary/英文概要： Why do some relationships give us great joy and others become toxic?
Are our relationship skills weakening in the age of social media?
In this insightful, warmly written book, Lucy Beresford cuts to the chase of how to have harmonious relationships that really serve us.
Beresford looks at different scenarios and how to deal with common problems and ructions in our connections with the most important people in our lives, whether that’s our partner, our boss or our mother. Using examples taken from her experience as a psychotherapist and agony aunt, Lucy gently leads the reader through a situation they might themselves be struggling with, and equip them with the tools they need to address any issues which are causing unhappiness or anxiety.
As well as being a helpful toolkit in dealing with everyday dilemmas, the book is intended to boost self-confidence, encourage understanding and empower the reader to be the best they can be in all their relationships.
Well-known dilemma format – readers learn about their own lives by observing what goes wrong in someone else’s and how to put it right
Different type of common, modern relationship explored in each chapter
Real life stories from author’s experience as psychotherapist and agony aunt
Author has a very strong media profile, including Agony Aunt column in Psychologies magazine
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为什么有些人际关系带给我们巨大的欢乐，而且有些则让我们痛苦不堪？
是我们建立人际关系的技能在这样一个社会化媒体时代下降了吗？在这样一本富有见解、温暖人心的作品中，露西.贝雷斯福特向我们讲述了建立真正有益于我们的和谐人际关系的要点。
贝雷斯福特根据不同场合，告诉我们如何处理我们与生命中最重要的人之间的日常问题和相互关系中的矛盾，无论他/她是我们的配偶、我们的老板还是我们的母亲。作为一名心理治疗学家以及一为知心大姐，露西从自己的实际工作中汲取案例，慢慢地地引领读者体会他们自身纠缠的问题，并为他们提供方法解决带来痛苦和焦虑的问题。
本书旨在增加自信，鼓励加强理解，赋予读者在建立最好的人际关系中所需要的一切，因而本书还可以作为一本处理日常困难的工具书。
读者通过观察别人关系中的问题以及解决办法，从而学会掌握自己的人生——这就是著名的困境格式。
作者在每一章探讨了各种普遍的当代人际关系；
所有案例均来自作者实际工作；
本书作者在媒体拥有强大的媒体资源，包括《心理学》杂志的“知心大姐”专栏。(XMM)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 露西.布莱斯福特出生于西萨塞克斯郡，毕业于英国杜伦大学英国文学专业。她出版过长篇小说《我不是》，以及一些短篇故事。她为《周日电讯报》、，新政治家》、《观察家报》以及《文学评论》撰写小说评论。 在伦敦金融区银行业工作十年之后，露西辞退工作，成为一名心理治疗学家。目前，她在伦敦市中心的私人诊所以及Priory医院工作。她经常在电视电台节目做客，是《心理学》杂志“知心大姐”专栏的作家。其有关健康和心理的文章还在《标准晚报》、《观察家报》、《时代杂志》、《First Post》、《周日电讯报》、《独立者报》以及亚洲《海峡时报》。作者还偶尔为《校园生活》撰写博客。
露西第一本有关自助的作品《建立愉快的人际关系》将于2013年1月由McGraw-Hill出版社出版，目前作者正在创作自己的第二部小说。
Lucy Beresford was born in West Sussex and read English Literature at Durham University. She is the author of the novel SOMETHING I’M NOT and has also had short stories published. She reviews fiction for Sunday Telegraph, New Statesman, The Spectator and Literary Review.
After ten years in investment banking in The City, Lucy retrained as a psychotherapist and now works in private practice in central London and at The Priory Hospital, Roehampton. She appears regularly on television and radio, and is the Agony Aunt for Psychologies. Her articles about well-being and psychology have also appeared in the Evening Standard, The Spectator, The Times, First Post, Sunday Telegraph’s Stella, The Independent, and The Straits Times in Asia. She also writes the occasional blog post for The School of Life.
Lucy’s first self-help title, HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS, will be published by McGraw-Hill in January 2013, and she is currently working on her second novel.
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