Creating Well-Being

Creating Well-Being by Philip Friedman, Ph.D., takes an integrative approach to self-improvement, weaving clinical psychology together with spiritual influences including A Course in Miracles and Siddha Yoga. Friedman's background as a licensed psychologist and Director of the Foundation for Well-Being gives the therapeutic framework genuine credibility — this is not pop psychology dressed up with credentials. The focus on love, inner peace, self-esteem, and happiness addresses concerns that are genuinely universal. The honest caveat, and it is a significant one for some readers: the interfaith and New Age spiritual influences are central to the book, not incidental. Readers from strictly orthodox faith traditions should know this going in. Published in 1989, some material also reflects an earlier era of psychological thinking. For open-minded seekers, it offers a thoughtful integrative path.