Harvard Health Publications

A research-based guide to controlling the destructive urge to gamble. From Howard Shaffer, PhD, a noted expert on gambling addiction, and Harvard Health Publications comes Change Your Gambling, Change your Life, a landmark new book which explains how gambling problems are related to other underlying issues: such as anxiety, mood fluctuation, difficulty with impulse control, and substance abuse problems. Dr. Shaffer offers a series of self-tests to help evaluate the degree of gambling problem and analyze the psychological and social context of the behavior, with specific strategies and approaches for ending the problems with simple tools that anyone can do. • Explains why many people have a problem controlling their urge to gamble and how that can be corrected • Includes a toolbox of resources for anyone who wants to stop the vicious cycle of gambling • Offers advice for avoiding slips and preventing backslides and how to deal with the consequences With candor and expert advice, Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life provides proven techniques for controlling the urge to gamble.

Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivity Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson’s provocative book, published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, reveals why creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy; in fact, all of us use our creative brains every day at home, work and play. Each of us has the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by learning to move flexibly among several brain states. • Explains seven brain states or "brainsets" and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation • Provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity Your Creative Brain, called by critics a “new classic” in the field of creativity, offers inspiring suggestions that can be applied in both one’s personal and professional life.