The Formula for Happiness is a self-help book which popularizes cutting-edge discoveries made by a board certified clinical psychologist about the nature of happiness and the behaviors and beliefs which enable people to become and remain happy. His groundbreaking way of understanding life and how to live has attracted worldwide attention since it was originally introduced to the scietific community in New Ideas in Psychology: an international journal of innovative theory in psychology in 1996. This is a peer reviewed journal produced by the world's largest publisher of original scientific work and overseen by an editorial board consisting of faculty from departments of psychology in several of the world's leading universities.
The Formula for Happiness presents this paradigm for the pursuit of happiness in a format which is entertaining and easily understood. It familiarizes readers with what they need to become and remain happy and how to proceed with their personal pursuit of happiness. Readers are provided with an objective means of measuring current levels of happiness as well as methods for increasing happiness and forecasting the effect potential courses of action are likely to have on their happiness at some future point in time.
The Formula for Happiness is the product of an innovative approach to the study of happiness which incorporates and surpasses research currently going on in the field of positive psychology in a number of important ways. It is based on generalizations emerging from the review of massive amounts of positive psychology research integrated with insights into the nature of happiness emerging from the fields of clinical and developmental psychology. It provides a comprehensive and coherent set of propositions about the nature of happiness which is different from anything available elswere in scientific and self-help literature today.
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Dr. Douglas Ramm is a board certified clinical psychologist who studied philosophy and religion at Ithaca College and psychology at Cornell and Duquesne Universities. He is a member of the American Psychological and the American Philosophical Associations. He is past president of the local chapter of the National Mental Health Association in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he resides with his family and where he has practiced his profession for nearly thirty years. His pioneering research on the relationship between happiness and human behavior has attracted worldwide interest since it was introduced to the scientific community in New Ideas in Psychology: an International Journal of Innovative Theory in Psychology in 1996. Dr. Ramm is listed in Marquee’s Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.
Co-author Steven N. Czetli is a self-employed professional writer. His newspaper experiences span twenty-five years and include work as a reporter, writer, and editor. In 1983, he was named editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times, and in 1986, he was recruited by the Pittsburgh Press as executive business editor. In 1992, he left the Pittsburgh Press to complete work on Silent Witness, the story of a psychic detective, and to take over management of Editor’s Aide, Inc., a successful media consulting firm. In 2003, the Small Business Administration recognized him as a regional journalist of the year.
