What’s Going Right

More than ever nowadays we need to define what true mental health is and how to foster it in ourselves and others. In What’s Going Right, Dr Paul Conti MD, teaches us how our emotions, inner dialogue and outward behaviors are structured, and how we can reshape the ways we think and interact with the world to bring about our best selves. Drawing from decades of clinical practice with a wide range of client types and situations, Dr Conti combines rigor, empathy and practical grounding to make clear exactly what we need to understand and do, to achieve a life of deep meaning, peace and satisfaction. What’s Going Right is a peerless mental health guide that belongs in every home.

Paul has personally helped me and several friends. I’m deeply grateful to have him in my life — his words hold meaning and insight. 

I have known Dr. Conti and trusted his opinions for many years.  In What’s Going Right, he presents new ideas — a new approach to understanding yourself — so that you can decide what your life will be.  We have much greater power over our own lives than we may think, the power to know ourselves and to create a new path forward.  This is not a mental health book, but a life book.  He encourages us to take responsibility for ourselves, in a way that is rooted in wisdom and compassion, and he lays out a set of tools that are as practical as they are effective.  He has identified the ‘generative drive’ that is at the core of what is going right in each of us.  He describes how the generative drive promises that by understanding what is going right, we can guide ourselves to where we want to be. 

Dr. Conti’s powerful method is the missing piece between just getting by in life and living with joy and intention. What’s Going Right proves that knowledge available to us all has the power to shift our mental health mindset and transform our lives in profound ways. 

I’ve had the dubious honor of meeting many psychiatrists and therapists, but nobody has had a bigger impact on the way I see the human psyche than Paul Conti.  He conveys his deep understanding of the human brain and trauma in a way that disarms the ego and leaves you with no other option than to understand and love yourself.  Often learning about yourself and your trauma can make you feel even more overwhelmed and hopeless, but Dr Conti focuses on achievable solutions and healing methods so you can actually move forward living a meaningful, conscious and, I’ll say it, FUN, life.

Sincere and science-based, Dr. Conti’s action-oriented frameworks have had a profound impact on me. Optimizing your mental health should be a top priority, and this book is chock-a-block with all his paradigm-shifting tools to get you there. If you aspire to live a more connected, authentic and meaningful life, this is the must read you have been waiting for. 

Paul was a great help to me when I really needed it.  I was able to see myself with new insight, grounded to the real challenges in my life, but not jumping over everything that is going right in me.  Together we discovered new ideas to counter unfair beliefs that did not withstand the challenge of compassion and wisdom.  I also learned new tools to help me find better health and happiness day in and day out.  I have more power over my life, and a better ability to harness the generative drive that fuels me forward! 

Dr. Paul Conti had me with one simple question: “What’s going right?” At a time when so many of us are consumed by what’s going wrong, he offers a compassionate and hopeful shift in perspective—one that has stayed with me personally for years. I have known Paul as my doctor, mentor, and friend, and the steady, generous voice in these pages is exactly the one that has helped so many people, myself included. This book is both practical and profound. It reminds us that growth begins not by focusing on what is broken, but by recognizing the strengths already within us.  What’s Going Right? is a rare and uplifting guide for anyone seeking a more grounded, meaningful, and fulfilling life. I am honored to endorse it. 

Dr. Conti possesses a rare capacity to listen not only to words, but to what exists beneath them — an ability that defines both his practice and his writing.  This book carries that same attentive presence. It moves with care through the inner territories we often avoid, offering language for unspoken pain and illumination where understanding has been absent.  In doing so, it reflects the depth of his experience and stands as an invitation to engage with honesty, compassion, and hope. Understanding the human mind can be a complex journey, shaped by cultural, religious, mystical, political, and social forces. These influences often mask expression within a wide and intricate spectrum of patterns and meanings. With remarkable mastery, Dr. Conti is able to decipher this language, guiding people to perceive what they need but may be unwilling — or unprepared — to see.  Through a deeply humane gentleness, he fosters healing, resilience, and the strength to move forward. 

Dr. Conti’s ability to empower people beyond those he is able to meet was strongly present in his first book, Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic.  This second book, What's Going Right, promises to amplify his impact, and extended it to a much wider audience.  It is a self-help guide to understanding yourself and creating your own healthy mental health.  This includes approaching many of the most common mental health issues with self-awareness, reflectiveness, and practical routes to change.  My guess is that this book will become required reading not just for patients and their therapists, but for people in search of a happier and healthier life.