The Psychology of Wellbeing

How can we improve our sense of wellbeing? What explains the current wellbeing boom? What does wellbeing mean to you?

The Psychology of Wellbeing offers readers tools to navigate their own wellbeing and understand what makes a ’good life’. Using self-reflection and storytelling, it explores how trust affects psychological and emotional wellbeing, considers how stress and inequality impact our psychological wellbeing, and how trends such as positive psychology influence our understanding of happiness.

In a world where the ’wellness economy’ is big business, The Psychology of Wellbeing shows how we can question and make sense of information sources, and sheds light on the wellness, self-care and self-help industry.

Dr Gary Wood is a Chartered Psychologist, solution-focused life coach, advice columnist, and broadcaster. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has more than 20 years’ experience teaching and applying psychology, in universities, for corporate training, and in the media for magazines, radio and TV.