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This book uses insights from psychological science along with illuminating anecdotes to present a framework for understanding our inner architecture and helping readers discover how to live their best lives.
Author Noam Shpancer explores humans’ fundamental psychological need for connection and need for autonomy and details how the fulfillment of these needs underpins robust mental health. In brief, accessible chapters, he offers ten guiding principles for achieving this fulfillment based on proven psychological findings. These principles–including trusting evidence, honoring your own experiences, being flexible, facing your fears, and trying to love–help readers develop new ways to think about themselves and others and to cope with life’s challenges.
Through engaging stories and explanations of human psychology, the book provides a path along which readers can explore their emotions, relationships, and ultimately what a meaningful life means to them.
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Explores humans’ fundamental psychological need for connection and need for autonomy and details how the fulfillment of these needs underpins robust mental healthOffers ten guiding principles for achieving this fulfillment based on proven psychological findingsHelps readers develop new ways to think about themselves and others and to cope with life’s challenges
Praise for Mental Fitness 101
I don’t know of a wiser guide to understanding and managing the “psychological turbulence that accompanies living” than Noam Shpancer. If this book―studded as it is with enlightened suggestions―does nothing else, it will shift your perspective on the sources of well-being and release you from the prison of believing that success lies in perpetual self-optimization.
―Hara Estroff Marano, BA, Editor at Large, Psychology Today; author of A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting
This book distills 10 thought-provoking principles for living, grounded in scientific research and enriched by Dr. Shpancer’s clinical wisdom. What makes it remarkable is how these ideas resonate beyond theory, offering readers a psychologically healthier, more expansive way of understanding themselves and approaching life with love, connection, and self-compassion.
―Aaron Kaplan, PhD, clinical psychologist and host of the Mind Tricks Radio podcast
In Mental Fitness 101: Principles for Psychological Well-Being, Noam Shpancer delivers a master class in clinical psychology by weaving together the art and science of contemporary psychological therapy. His wonderfully written book incorporates enlightening anecdotes, creative thought experiments, excellent case examples, and delivers fantastic, immediately actionable ideas for seasoned clinicians and laypeople alike. I intend to enthusiastically recommend it to my patients, colleagues, and trainees. Truly, I wish I had this book 40 years ago when I was a training psychologist!
―Clifford N. Lazarus, PhD, cofounder, The Lazarus Institute, Skillman, NJ
Publisher : American Psychological Association
Publication date : February 10, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 319 pages
ISBN-10 : 1433848287
ISBN-13 : 978-1433848285
Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.44 x 0.8 x 8.51 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,206,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,827 in Popular Social Psychology & Interactions #3,149 in Emotional Mental Health #6,413 in Emotional Self Help
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