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In this millennium, the rapid advancement of science and information technology has actually increased the pace of already complex and competitive modern life so much that most of us feel too stressed out to cope with the everyday life stresses. Moreover, drastic traumas, such as disastrous airplane crashes; earthquakes; hurricanes; terrorist attacks; bomb blasts; Afghan War, Iraq War, the Gulf War and clash of civilizations have forced the mental health professionals to rethink and redesign more efficient methods for the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders across the globe. This book is written with the aim to provide tips for healthy living to the lay persons so that it would promote their understanding of the complex and intricate interaction between mind and body. Furthermore, it can be used as an essential reading material for the students of clinical psychology, counseling psychology, psychiatry, sociology, medicine, nursing and other related fields of mental health for promoting their understanding of mental health, mental illness and psychotherapeutic interventions.

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Prof. Dr. Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi (Tamgha-i-Imtiaz from President of Pakistan) got M. Sc(Gold Medal) from University of the Punjab; M.A (A+) and Ph. D(A+) from Temple University; Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology from State of New Jersey and Post-Doc from University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

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