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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated (平装)
by David D. Burns, M.D.
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Self improvement, Self help |
| Market price: ¥ 108.00
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¥ 98.00
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 Good for Gifts |
| MSL Pointer Review:
A classic in the area of Cognitive Therapy, Feeling Good is highly recommended as essential reading to everyone, even though you are not depressed. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
Many years ago I had a confluence of tragic events in my life and I decided to see a psychologist for a while. One day the psychologist told me that I needed to "deal with my feelings". I told him in frustration that I heard that many times before, but that I did not understand what that meant. I asked him what exactly do people do when they "deal with their feelings". He was silent for a few moments and then he wrote the name of this book down on a slip of paper. This book will tell you how to "deal with your feelings".
You may get an instant change in your feelings on some small issues, but for the most part cognitive therapy is like jogging to lose weight. You have to do it consistently and for a while to get significant results. No magic, you have to work, but you will get good results.
One of the symptoms of depression is not seeing things as they are. Since cognitive therapy works on learning to see things as how they are a person with severe depression might benefit from seeing a psychologist who specializes in cognitive therapy. Such a therapist can help a person see around their blind spots whereas a book can not.
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
Many years ago I had a confluence of tragic events in my life and I decided to see a psychologist for a while. One day the psychologist told me that I needed to "deal with my feelings". I told him in frustration that I heard that many times before, but that I did not understand what that meant. I asked him what exactly do people do when they "deal with their feelings". He was silent for a few moments and then he wrote the name of this book down on a slip of paper. This book will tell you how to "deal with your feelings".
You may get an instant change in your feelings on some small issues, but for the most part cognitive therapy is like jogging to lose weight. You have to do it consistently and for a while to get significant results. No magic, you have to work, but you will get good results.
One of the symptoms of depression is not seeing things as they are. Since cognitive therapy works on learning to see things as how they are a person with severe depression might benefit from seeing a psychologist who specializes in cognitive therapy. Such a therapist can help a person see around their blind spots whereas a book can not.
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
I found out this book when I was hospitalized in 2000 in a major depression and was introduced to the cognitive therapy for the first time. This book had changed my life and immediately lifted my mood during the time when I was reading and following up doing the exercised in the book. I've been in an immobilizing depression for the last 3 months and I was getting more and more isolating myself. I tried all the affirmations and listening to the New Age tape but I still couldn't get out of it. I suddenly remember the 2 colume method to recognize the "thinking errors" that's taught in this book. I realized that I had been in a "Lethargy Cycle" and I took out the book and started reading the chapter "Do-Nothingism" since I have been lying in bed everyday for about 2 weeks and couldn't get myself to do anything and as a result of that I feel worse and worse and then the worse I feel the more I lied in bed. Reading the chapter "Do-Nothingism" busted all my self defeating thoughts and after reading the chapter, I swing out of bed and started a very productive day and the guilt and self loathing disappeared!
This book is a must have for anyone who is chronically depressed or someone who's just simply going through a hard time. It is such a generous gift by Dr. David Burns! I am so greatful!
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
The list of the ten "cognitive distortions" on pages 40-41 is worth the price of this book. I have memorized them and use them almost every day to catch myself making mistakes in my thinking when I'm angry or disappointed, or sad, or peeved, or whatever. Memorize that list. It's not hard to do. And then when you catch yourself making one of those mistakes, you instantly feel better, because the "cognitive distortion" warped your view of the world in a way that made you have more negative emotion than you needed to have. This is different than positive thinking. It's different than trying to make yourself believe something positive you don't believe. This is clearing up the illusions you have that make you feel bad. It is practical and is very effective. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
It's important to mention that this is the one and only self-help book that has empirical support. It works; it's been proven! If you have mild to moderate depression, this book is likely to be tremendously helpful to you. If you have severe depression, this book is a great addition to therapy (Burns provides a checklist to assess your level of depression).
I'm a psychology student who has been depressed on and off throughout my life. I used the techniques in this book, and my depression completely lifted in a few weeks. It's not magic though. The techniques are very concrete. This book will help you identify and change the negative patterns of thought that keep you depressed, and keep your self-esteem down. As a psych major, I can tell you this book is a great example of the cognitive-behavioral school of therapy.
Do yourself a favor and read this book! It's a great option for those who are not completely open to therapy |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
I liked this book, but at the same time I hated it.
First of all, it is obvious that the author spent a lot of time thinking about it, organizing it, and making it readable. I would even say he is probably sincere in what he says. It also contains a good deal of information about how drugs can be used to treat depression.
Now here's the bad part: I am skeptical about how useful these ideas could be. The author says these ideas are revolutionary, but I don't think they are going to change the world or human nature. They originated with Albert Ellis, who in my humble opinion was a bit grandiose. What Dr. Burns seems to be telling us is that we feel the way we do because of what we tell ourselves. If instead we learn to intellectualize everything or look at it in a positive way, we will feel a lot happier. For example, if I tell myself "Oh, I am always screwing things up" we are more likely to feel bad than if we simply say "I don’t always want to screw things up, and even though I did it wrong this time I can learn from it". Talking to ourselves in terms of "always" or "never" is known as overgeneralization and will get us into trouble, the author claims.
The problem I have with this idea is that some of us naturally are less adept, less talented, less beautiful than others. We are in fact judged by our IQ, social skills and beauty. In this vein, it could be argued that we should learn to accept ourselves regardless of what disablities we have, what people think of us, and so on. Indeed, there are some people who seem to be happy a great deal of the time, regardless (down's syndrome children being a very good example). But how many of the rest of us can honestly say that the opinion of others does not matter to us? I would suspect the answer is "few".
In wrapping things up, I want to say that the ideas in the book may be useful to someone who has mild self-esteem problems and a fair amount of insight as to how he/she interacts with others. On the other hand, if the book is used by someone who has poor social skills or limited awareness of his/her self, the problem is not to DENY the existence of these problems, as the book suggests, but rather to recognize that there is problem and work to improve it with the help of a trained practioner. Doing anything else is guaranteed to cause even further damage to self-esteem in the future. |
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