Conversations About Happiness

A kind and substantial conversation with the reader about psychology, happiness, choosing a life path, love, work, and creativity. Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst Arkady Pants shares his experience, observations, thoughts, and feelings accumulated over his 35 years of professional activity.

This book can be compared to a wise and attentive talk about the important questions of human life, which will help you understand what happiness is. It contains many instructive stories about how people trapped in misconceptions, grief, or fear ultimately found the strength to move off dead center and find hope for happiness.

Is life possible without happiness?

What to do when someone important to you doesn’t understand your decision?

How dangerous are desires from the “past” life?

How can you stop being resentful?

Why does love sometimes not bring us happiness?

Can a child make parents happy?

How do you realize your passion for creativity?

Can you enjoy life when many unpleasant things happen?

In the book you’ll find answers to these and many other questions. You’ll be convinced that there are no truly unsolvable problems, and you’ll draw inspiration for solving your own tasks. You’ll also learn about the beginnings of psychoanalysis around the world and simply enjoy getting to know the book—it can be read like an engaging novel.

If you live the way you like, do what you want, and it brings you joy, then happiness will also inevitably be yours—despite occasional troubles, illnesses, and even losses. “Happiness is possible, suffering is not necessary, and troubles are temporary,” the author is convinced.