Towards Happiness ― A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way

Ahron Friedberg, M.D.

Mar 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross

About this audiobook

Drawing on a range of clinical cases, Towards Happiness presents an engaging, insightful look at how we define and achieve happiness in core aspects of our lives: work and money, wellness and personal growth, sex and love, family and friendship, and aging. The book includes a series of essays by Dr. Ahron Friedberg, a prominent psychiatrist, concerning how his patients sought to achieve greater happiness during challenging periods of their lives, and how as a consequence they grew personally and professionally. Each chapter considers a core topic through the lens of Dr. Friedberg's practice, demonstrating how patients worked through difficult, sometimes chronic personal issues. Throughout, there are useful summaries of key points. While candidly acknowledging that each life is different, Towards Happiness offers practical examples that can enhance listener's efforts to achieve greater levels of happiness and reorient their lives towards a deeper capacity for happiness. Towards Happiness offers honest insights into the compromises, sacrifices, and resulting degrees of success that characterize pursuing happiness, and will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, and other mental health professionals. It will also be useful listening for anyone seeking to understand the achievement of happiness in their own lives.

About the author

Ahron Friedberg, MD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and editor for the Academy Forum of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. His recent books include Psychotherapy and Personal Change and Through a Screen Darkly.

Jonathan Todd Ross has narrated over 120 audiobooks across a wide variety of genres. An Audie Award winner, he is also the recipient of numerous YALSA and AudioFile Earphones Awards. Jonathan loves narrating all genres, bringing the author's words to audio-life.

Sandra Sherman is a principal at ChildsPlay International, an organization that helps children around the world to realize the benefits of play. She is the author of four books on cultural history, and coauthor of several books on neuroscience, as well as coauthor of Psychotherapy and Personal Change and Through a Screen Darkly.