Dr Eddie Murphy’s book, Becoming Your Real Self is described as a practical toolkit for managing life’s challenges, exploring methods for building up and maintaining mental fitness and a positive outlook.
The 360-page book promises the reader that he/she will learn how to transform stress into relaxation, depression into hope, anxiety into freedom, anger into calm, social anxiety into confidence, low self-esteem into self-worth, emotional eating into self control.
Chapter headings include Rewriting the Story of Your Life, The Pros and Cons of Medicine, Understanding Grief and Depression, and there are chapters too on being a carer, on mindfullness, post-natal depression, and sections also dealing with banishing shyness and social anxiety.
As well as being the psycholgist on Operation Transformation, Dr Eddie has over 30 years’ experience in health care. Apart from his extensive private practice, is a principal clinical psychologist with the HSE. Becoming Your Real Self is published as a trade paperback by Penguin on February 26.
