Introduction -- Identity and meaning: moving toward a healthy -- Self-concept -- Developing emotional maturity and emotional intelligence -- Communication : the key to effective living -- Human sexuality -- Gender and human happiness -- Friends, lovers and marriage : is lasting love possible? -- Stress and illness : maladaptation or coping rationally with adversity -- Rational or irrational appraisal of the situation : stress and post-traumatic disorder -- The search for meaning and living life to the fullest -- Finding the balance : meeting the challenges of midlife -- Death and dying : denial and acceptance -- Living a long and healthy life : socio-economic status and positive human psychology -- Vignettes -- My self-concept -- A father and son relationship -- The guilty feeling i remember -- Some cultural non-verbal communications -- Transgender children -- Love at first sight -- We were traditional and then egalitarian -- Encounter with my ladder -- Positive appraisal when we are solidly anchored in a benign world -- My life with the fbi and associates : rational or irrational threat? -- Experiences on my journey to bulgaria -- Midlife was another chapter in my life story -- The unexpected can happen -- Approaching death does not change who we are : laughing with carl -- A child's perspective on death and dying -- Beautiful brittany maynard -- Pushing tobacco in developing countries -- A beautiful girl in vietnam.