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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated (Paperback)
by David D. Burns, M.D.
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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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Author: David D. Burns, M.D.
Publisher: Avon; Revised edition
Pub. in: October, 1999
ISBN: 0380810336
Pages: 736
Measurements: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00478
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International Bestseller with 3 million copies in print |
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This is a book by David Burns, a psychiatrists who has treated many depressed patients. The book starts out with a special test you can take to see if you are depressed.
After this test, he shows you some basic concepts on how your depression starts. To answer, the depression starts because you have irrational beliefs that cause you to interpret events as being bad without really thinking about what you are thinking. For example, if lets say your teacher screams at you, you might get depressed because you think you're a worthless, horrible, person who doesn't deserve to live. This belief causes you to feel depressed instead of just disappointed or frustrated.
So, CBT (Cognitve-Behavior Therapy, this books type of therapy) attmepts to make you realized how back your beliefs are by making you draw columns where you state your irrational belief then describe what kind of an irrational belief it is and then write what kind of belief you should have instead. The book has many charts and pictures of techniques of taking away your irrational thoughts such as overgeneralizing things and all-or- nothing thinking.
This book was voted best book on self-help depression a person can buy by over 100 psychologists in the"authoritve guide to self-help books.” The book is still selling well 21 years after its first edition was published because the methods work. After first practicing Freudian psychiatry, Albert Ellis developed rational/cognitive therapy in 1955 and soon added emotive and behavioral tools. Ellis and Burns have played the most important roles in effectively making these tools available to us laymen.
These tools work so well that you're far more likely to effectively deal with your own challenges with them than if you went to a psychologist or psychiatrist. (Some people truly do have chemical imbalances or temporarily need medication to get them to where they can deal with their situations, and that, of course, requires seeing a medical doctor.) Studies have consistently proven that cognitive-behavioral techniques help people faster and provide better long-term results than traditional psychiatric therapies.
I want to make one point that doesn't appear in most other reviews. Like Ellis, Burns shows you how to use both cognitive and behavioral techniques. Yes, most unwanted feelings and behaviors do start with our own thoughts... and we can learn to change them. The main other thing I've learned over the past 20 years or so, however, is that I also need to first take some physical action to help change the emotional/behavioral pattern that I don't want. Just sitting in a chair and thinking differently doesn't do the trick. And Feeling Good provides you these tools, too.
You can easily benefit from the most powerful tools available through buying and using both Burns' Feeling Good and Albert Ellis' A Guide to Rational Living. While Feeling Good is better written and contains a wider variety of tools, Ellis teaches you how to use the single most effective cognitive system.
These tools require you to work in order to realize the benefits that you want. The terrific news is that there is hope! And, just as importantly, you have access to the tools that you need... now.
Needless to say it’s a great thing to do to introduce Feeling Good and the concept of Cognitive Therapy in this form to China when the dynamic social and economic changes the country has undergone in the past few decades have bought on considerable stress on millions of people. Statistics shows that in 2003 alone, nearly 290,000 people took their lives and two million more made usuccessful attempts of suicide. Stress, anxiety and depression are haunting more and more working professionals and the issue is calling for immediate and increased awareness of tools to deal with the problem. We hope our customers will benefit from reading and applying Feeling Good.
(From quoting D. Leybman and P. Hamilton, USA)
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David D. Burns, M.D., graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College, received his M.D. degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as Acting Chief of Psychiatry at the Presbyterian / University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Medical School. In 1995 Dr. Burns and his family returned to California. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at his alma mater, the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is actively involved in research and teaching. Dr. Burns is certified by the National Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Burns has received numerous awards including the A. E. Bennett Award from the Society for Biological Society for his research on brain chemistry and the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology through the Media Award from the Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology. In 1998 he received the Teacher of the Year award from the graduating residents in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. When he is not crunching statistics he can be found giving lectures to professional groups around the world.
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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
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Chapter One
A Breakthrough In the Treatment of Mood Disorders
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you. The suicide rate, studies indicate, has been on a shocking increase in recent years, even among children and adolescents. This escalating death rate has occurred in spite of the billions of antidepressant drugs and tranquilizers that have been dispensed during the past several decades.
This might sound fairly gloomy. Before you get even more depressed, let me tell you the good news. Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living. What's more important - you can overcome it by learning some simple methods for mood elevation. A group of psychiatrists and psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has reported a significant breakthrough in the treatment and prevention of mood disorders. Dissatisfied with traditional methods for treating depression because they found them to be slow and ineffective, these doctors developed and systematically tested an entirely new and remarkably successful approach to depression and other emotional disorders. A series of recent studies confirms that these techniques reduce the symptoms of depression much more rapidly than conventional psychotherapy or drug therapy. The name of this revolutionary treatment is "cognitive therapy."
I have been centrally involved in the development of cognitive therapy, and this book is the first to describe these methods to the general public. The systematic application and scientific evaluation of this approach in treating clinical depression traces its origins to the innovative work of Drs. Albert Ellis and Aaron T. Beck, who began to refine their unique approach to mood transformation in the mid-1950's and early 1960's.* Their pioneering efforts began to emerge into prominence in the past decade because of the research that many mental-health professionals have undertaken to refine and evaluate cognitive therapy methods at academic institutions in the United States and abroad.
Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.
The simple, effective mood-control techniques of cognitive therapy provide:
Rapid Symptomatic Improvement: In milder depressions, relief from your symptoms can often be observed in as short a time as twelve weeks.
Understanding: A clear explanation of why you get moody and what you can do to change your moods. You will learn what causes your powerful feelings; how to distinguish "normal" from "abnormal" emotions; and how to diagnose and assess the severity of your upsets.
Self-control: You will learn how to apply safe and effective coping strategies that will make you feel better whenever you are upset. I will guide you as you develop a practical, realistic, step-by-step self-help plan. As you apply it, your moods can come under greater voluntary control.
Prevention and Personal Growth: Genuine and long-lasting prophylaxis (prevention) of future mood swings can effectively be based on a reassessment of some basic values and attitudes which lie at the core of your tendency toward painful depressions. I will show you how to challenge and reevaluate certain assumptions about the basis for human worth.
The problem-solving and coping techniques you learn will encompass every crisis in modem life, from minor irritations to major emotional collapse. These will include realistic problems, such as divorce, death, or failure, as well as those vague, chronic problems that seem to have no obvious external cause, such as low self-confidence, frustration, guilt, or apathy.
The question may now occur to you, "Is this just another self-help pop psychology?" Actually, cognitive therapy is one of the first forms of psycho- therapy which has been shown to be effective through rigorous scientific research under the critical scrutiny of the academic community. This therapy is unique in having professional evaluation and validation at the highest academic levels. It is not just another self-help fad but a major development that has become an important part of the mainstrem of modem psychiatric research and practice. Cognitive therapy's academic foundation. has enhanced its impact and should give it staying power for years to come. But don't be turned off by the professional status that cognitive therapy has acquired. Unlike much traditional psychotherapy, it is not occult and anti-intuitive. It is practical and based on common sense, and you can make it work for you.
The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your "cognitions," or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things- your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself. You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.
Let me illustrate this. How have you been feeling as you read this? You might have been thinking, "Cognitive therapy sounds too good to be true. It would never work for me." If your thoughts run along these lines, you are feeling skeptical or even discouraged. What causes you. to feel that way? Your thoughts. You create those feelings by the dialogue you are having with yourself about this book!
Conversely, you may have felt a sudden uplift in mood because you thought, "Hey, this sounds like something which might finally help me." Your emotional reaction is generated not by the sentences you are reading but by the way you are thinking. The moment you have a certain thought and believe it, you will experience an immediate emotional response. Your thought actually creates the emotion.
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Los Angles Times )MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
A book to read and re-read! |
David Mann (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
This book is really incredible and has changed my life. I have bought at least ten copies - one for me, and one for everyone else who I am friends with or care about. David Burns presents a step by step method for performing mental house cleaning which will help you finally get a handle on bad thought habits that have been bringing you down for years. Please get a copy. |
Richard Singer (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
I can think back to when I purchased this book. It was a gloomy day in Washington, D.C. where I was stationed with the Marines Corps. I was an active alcoholic and suicidally depressed. I wandered in a bookstore in Pentagon city looking for an answer. This book is what i found. It gave me hope and practical strategies to improve my depressed thinking and begin my path to recovery. It took a few years for me to get my life together, but I definitely have to credit Dr. Burns Book with giving me hope that there was an answer to my desperate state of wanting to die on a daily basis. The strategies in this book combined with medication allowed me to escape the "HELL" of depression and begin living a peaceful and content life. Thank You Dr. Burns. Of course I highly recommend this book. |
Black (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
I am bipolar. Each year that passed I became more and more significantly depressed with my cycles. I was hospitalized several times, once for three months. I was suicidal more times than I ever admitted to my doctors and therapists. To respond to an earlier review, I'm not sure how I would have taken this book at my darkest moments. However, I was still pretty low when my therapist suggested I pick it up.
It is without a doubt the single most important factor in my well mental health. Learning cognative therapy has enabled me to be medication free (yes, with doctors approval) for over 8 years.
About a year after getting this book and learning the techniques there was a moment that scared me. I would feel okay, even good, them out of nowhere I would be very down. Previously I had been a slow cycler so I was very worried that my illness was progressing. After my therapist questioned me for quite some time he pointed out to me that I was clincally depressed, however when I had the strength I would implement the cognative therapy I had learned and hence elevate my mood. But because I was depressed I could only maintain that strength for a short time and would feel the depression again. Every day/month/year that I practice cognative therapy it becomes second nature. Like I have stated, I am medication free. I have not been hospitalized since learning cognative therapy. Depression no longer rules my life. I recommend this book to anyone who is struggling. |
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