Culture

You Are Right

 

 

Author: Jeong Hye Shin
Genre: Humanities
Publisher: Hainaim
Page: 328

 

The best seller humanities book, You Are Right, is edited by Jeong Hye Shin. The book is written after the author after listening to a variety of people’s stories while she was working as a psychiatrist for 30 years. Moreover, the author, Jeong Hye Shin, started to write this book after she had experienced that a lot of people in our society have mental destruction and hurt.
This book provides psychological guidelines to comfort readers who have been through a hard time and are wounded in various ways. The book gives advice for people such as workers, victims of the tragedy, and so on. This book starts with an analysis of why most people of today have physical, and mental sickness through the deep insight of the societal atmosphere and environment which are often neglecting. Furthermore, the author presents a proper method of sympathy which can be truly helpful to others, and the importance of warm sympathy. In this regard, the writer emphasizes that we all are creatures that should be respected and tells us how to manage a number of situations that we face in our lives, and the many emotions that we undergo in these situations. 
In this society, most of us do not know how to handle our genuine emotions and thoughts wisely. We may try to only accept our positive emotions or ignore our negative feelings. However, this book enlightens readers that the emotions we experience have no right and wrong, the feelings we have are right, and the importance of respecting and accepting our feelings. In this process of accepting and practicing these learnings, readers acquire a the more appropriate and healthy way to cope with their own feelings and empathize with others.