Table of contents : Contents Preface Introduction 1. Questions and Answers about Constructive Living (CL) 2. Getting Along with Life 3. Shinks 4. Common Sense 5. Fleeing from Responsibility for Behavior 6. An Alternative to Psychotherapy 7. Psychotherapy as Myth 8. On Feelings 9. In Praise of Pain 10. Whirling Dust 11. Reflections on Mind 12. Attention 13. Paralysis by Possibility— Unipossible and Multipossible Situations 14. Under New Management 15. Contentment 16. Backups, Throwaway Tissues, Road Kill, and Resources— Self-focus in America 17. On Being Natural 18. Some Truths 19. Reflections on Interpersonal Relations 20. Constructive Living Assignments 21. Constructive Living Tales 22. Constructive Living Maxims 23. Constructive Living Poem Postscript—Healing America References