Name: Feeling Good
ISBN: 9780451158871

David D. Burns

Aaron T. Beck

This national bestseller, reissued with a new Introduction from the author, presents a highly successful, clinically proven, drug-free treatment for depression. Recommended by mental health professionals to patients suffering from depression. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The New Mood Therapy

Feeling Good

The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life. Now, in this updated edition, Dr. Burns adds an All-New Consumer′s Guide To Anti-depressant Drugs as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression. - Recognise what causes your mood swings - Nip negative feelings in the bud - Deal with guilt - Handle hostility and criticism - Overcome addiction to love and approval - Build self-esteem - Feel good everyday

Matthew Royal

"There is a kind of genius about depression. Patients can be so incredibly persuasive about their hopelessness that even their doctors and families may start believing them after a while.... No matter what type of treatment you receive, faith and persistence can be the keys to success."

Vivian

This book was recommended to me earlier this year, and I was dragging my feet to read a 700-page long self-help book. Guess what, it was a pleasant surprise and I do find the cognitive psychotherapy methods useful & sustainable to calm me down in times of self-doubts and anxieties (and diligently printed out the ten cognitive distortions and double-column technique tables). The timing was also perfect - a few months ago I might not have been so perceptive to such ideas. 

I didn't like the tone of Burns sometimes, a bit too patronizing and self-congratulatory. But considering this book was first published in 1980, I'll let it pass. Oh, and don't dread the 700ish pages, 1/4 is appendix and 1/4 is just about antidepressant drugs that I flipped over gladly.

Lucas Coelho

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been presenting great results in depression and it did great for my clinical depression over the past few years, so I decided to read this book to see if this could be useful as a self help material and it really is. I was familiar with many of the techniques from this book but it is still a good one to keep at hand to remember yourself from time to time on how to cope with ”blue mood”, as well as a good informative read for if you are helping someone on this situation. 

Recommend.

Feeling Good The New Mood Therapy

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