The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris

A particularly useful and well-made book for those seeking to better understand themselves and improve their well-being.

The Happiness Trap is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an innovative therapeutic approach with a solid scientific foundation, based on mindfulness, aimed at developing the "psychological flexibility" that allows you to overcome critical moments and fully live the present by moving in the direction traced by your values.

Russ Harris addresses the problem of happiness and satisfaction in life with different tools, methods and exercises, leading readers to the discovery of their personal happiness trap, helping them to recognize the mental mechanisms that keep them prisoners and eliminate negative thoughts through innovative, original tools.

The goal is to recover your freedom to choose and act as you see fit, without falling into the trap: these misleading ideas create a vicious circle in which the more we try to find happiness, the more we suffer.

And this psychological trap is so well hidden that nothing makes us suspect we are inside.

This is the bad news.

The good news is that there is hope.

You can learn to recognize the “happiness trap” and, more importantly, you can discover how to get out of it.