Addicted to Unhappiness (Second Edition): How Hidden Motives for Unhappiness Keep You From Creating the Life You Truly Want, And What You Can Do

Are you unable to follow through on important resolutions? Are you frustrated or inefficient at work? Is your love life unrewarding or filled with conflict? Are you plagued by unpleasant emotions for no apparent reason? Everyone is born with the potential to live fulfilled lives, but many of us find it difficult to realize that potential. Best-selling authors Martha and William Pieper will help you understand how you unknowingly became an addict to unhappiness. Using real-life examples drawn from their clinical experience, the authors provide insights and effective strategies that will help you choose and maintain the happiness you deserve.

Martha Heineman Pieper received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and her B.A. from Radcliffe College, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude. Dr. Pieper has served on the editorial boards of Social Work and Smith College Studies in Social Work and has published extensively in academic and professional journals. She continues in private practice in Chicago and serves on the boards of both Smart Love Family Services (where she is also the clinical consultant) and the Intrapsychic Humanism Society. William J. Pieper (1929-2014) received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Illinois. He did a residency in adult and child psychiatry at the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute and the Chicago Institute for Juvenile Research. In 1975 he graduated from the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis with a certificate in child and adult psychoanalysis. He was on the faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and taught at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. For more than twenty-five years, the Piepers were in private practice treating children, adolescents, and adults; counseling parents; supervising other mental health professionals; and doing clinical research. Their work is the basis for the non-profit agency Smart Love Family Services, which provides both early education and mental health services, and also for the non-profit Intrapsychic Humanism Society, which offers educational programs to clinicians as well as to the general public.