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The Feeling Good Handbook (平装)
by David D. Burns
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Mental fitness, Self improvement, Self help |
| Market price: ¥ 258.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
An excellent introduction to cognitive therapy and a great companion to Feeling Good. |
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Silver (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
There are obviously many people who were helped by this book, but I am not one of them. This book is the result of a very major effort, but what turns me off is that the author seems overly optimistic about the results you can get from his methods, and at times seems a bit condescending and even a bit self-congratulatory. He also appears at times a little naive.
Dr. Burns seems to believe that all problems are created equal, or at least capable of getting dramatically better, even for those who are marginalized or ignored by the rest of society. In these cases, for someone to suggest that someone's depression is simply the result of "faulty" thinking is offensive to me. It encourages the rest of society to be comfortable in believing that it is the depressed person's fault for being the way he/she is, and for not working hard enough to correct his "wrong" thinking. What social justice is there in that?
For the doctor to suggest that he can put an end to marital conflict to me is nothing but pure bunk. There is no way to permanently end marital conflict except to get a divorce. Many other experts say that couples who can openly argue with one another actually have better marriages. To say that marital conflict can be ended is to say that we can have a world without war. Conlict is an inevitable part of life, and we should work to minimize it, but sometimes it cannot be prevented.
It really disturbs me that an entire school of thought has developed around the idea that nobody needs to be depressed, and that if they are, it is simply because they are not being "rational". For many people this is true. For example, I don't think that Britney Spears or Paris Hilton ever needs to get depressed. When they do, it is very apparent to me that they are being irrational. But for many of the rest of us, being depressed is simply being realistic. If rational-emotive therapy is so great, how come it wasn't developed sooner? I believe that this is just the thinking of the age, and that someday it may be partially discredited, just as was Freud and psychoanalysis. I don't think it will be entirely discredited, because some of the ideas can be effective if applied correctly.
It is almost a scientific fact that people need to be acknowledged. When a baby is ignored by its mother, very often it will get sick and die, even if it gets plenty of food and water. I believe that there is a biological need for love, no matter how old we are. Humans also have a variety of other needs, as discovered by Abraham Maslow in his heirarchy of needs. People who are mentally or biologically inferior have more difficulty in getting these needs met, and to me it is a mistake to label these people as "irrational". We are, indeed, not created equal, nor are we equally capable of being happy. In many cases it will be possible to feel "better", but it may never be possible to feel "good".
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