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...Choose to do the things that make you feel good about yourself," advise Psychoanalysts Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz in How to Be Your Own Best Friend. Don't fume about the tax laws, because you can't do anything about them anyway, says Psychotherapist Wayne W. Dyer, author of the top-selling Your Erroneous Zones...
Therapist Dyer sets up the advice as a syllogism - a risky step in a genre usually devoted to deploring rationality. His logic: I can control my thoughts; my feelings come from my thoughts; therefore I can control my feelings. To Dyer, who wrote his book in just 13 days, it is all very simple: "Mental health is not complex, involved or hard work. It ought to be just common sense...
This brand of positive thinking, plus a catchy title and heavy promotion, is making Dyer wealthy. Your Erroneous Zones has sold 150,000 copies in six months and is now No. 2 on TIME'S bestseller list. A balding, hitherto little-known professor at St. John's University in New York, Dyer, 36, says he practices what he preaches about emotional control. When he underwent oral surgery without an anesthetic, he felt no pain. He chose to feel pleasure by fantasizing erotic images and recalling positive things in his life...
...EDUCATION. It is reported that penicillin was invented by a laundryman in a dyer's shop. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, though he began as a newspaper boy. What learning did Jesus have? . . . It is always those with less learning who overthrow those with more learning...
...Passages, Sheehy (1) 2-The Final Days, Woodward &Bernstein (2) 3-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (7) 4-World of Our Fathers,Howe (4) 5-Scoundrel Time, Hellman (6) 6-A Year of Beauty and Health, Beverly & Vidal Sassoon (5) 7-A Man Called Intrepid,Stevenson (3) 8-Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Kearns (8) 9-Black Sun, Wolff 10-Loretta Lynn, Lynn & Vecsey...