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Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (Hardcover)
by Michael Edelstein and David Ramsay Steele
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Cognitive therapy, Self improvement, Self help |
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Simple, elegant, clear, and life-changing, this book is one of the most authorative voices on cognitive theray. |
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Author: Michael Edelstein and David Ramsay Steele
Publisher: Glenbridge Publishing
Pub. in: March, 1997
ISBN: 0944435424
Pages: 228
Measurements: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.0 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00480
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- Awards & Credential -
Michael Edelstein was awarded the NACBT's "Author of the Year" award in 1998 for his work on Three Minute Therapy. |
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Three Minute Therapy pulls off a double feat: it provides one of the best available illustrations of the principles of contemporary Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy, and most importantly, it provides its readers with simple and straightforward techniques that can be employed immediate- ly to address a broad range of emotional and practical problems. Illustrated with real-life examples and case studies from Dr. Edelstein's private practice of more than 25 years, TMT is highly readable and practical.
Several chapters are of particular interest. The chapter on marriage and relationships (Chapter 4) for example, had a profound effect on my understanding of relationship functioning and inspired me, in part, to pursue a career in mental health. The chapter not only traces frequent dysfunctional patterns of interaction in couples, it also delineates individuals' own respective responsibilities in creating and maintaining these patterns. The chapter on secondary disturbances (Chapter 13) addresses a subject that I have encountered frequently in my own clinical work, but which receives relatively little attention in the popular and professional psychological literature: individuals' tendencies to upset themselves for experiencing the emotions they are experiencing. Many of the book's other chapters are also noteworthy- the chapters on self- esteem and procrastination (Chapters 3 and 6, respectively), to name a few.
Often provocative and never boring, TMT challenges the conventional wisdom in a number of areas, including the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous as well as the value of promoting people's 'positive thinking' and self-esteem. Readers who want to learn ways to transform their own lives, readers who want to learn to find their own solutions to their emotional problems, readers who want to live their lives more fully according to their own goals and values, or readers who want to merely have a better understanding of REBT principles, would do well to read Three Minute Therapy. (From quoting Jon Jassy, USA)
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Dr. Michael R. Edelstein is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and a Fellow and Supervisory Faculty member of the Albert Ellis Institute. He has lectured nationally and internationally, has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows, and has written extensively for professional journals.
Dr. David Ramsay Steele is the Editorial Director of Open Court Publishing Company. His articles have appeared in a wide range of publications.
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From the Publisher:
Three Minute Therapy can help to change your life for the better. You will find yourself looking at life in a different way. Your emotional troubles will seem less mysterious and less powerful. If you take the trouble to learn the techniques explained in Three Minute Therapy, think about them, and apply them to your problems, you will be able to tackle difficulties that may have seemed impossible. Some of your worst fears and anxieties can diminish or dissolve away, and you will become more effective at pursuing your chosen life goals. The techniques used in Three Minute Therapy show you, clearly and simply, how you needlessly upset yourself, and it gives you many thinking, feeling, and action methods of reducing your disturbances while still retaining your main goals, values, and preferences. Three Minute Therapy can add years of healthier and happier living to your life.
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Albert Ellis (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
Of all the books that explain [Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy] in simple, clear, and highly usable form, Three Minute Therapy is one of the very best. |
Martin Blinder (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
With a series of incisive insights Michael Edelstein cuts through the psychological jargon and makes clear how all of us can effect powerful changes in our psyches, in our lives and in the lives of our loved ones. |
Randolf Philips (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
I read this book after reading a number of Albert Ellis' book on rational emotive therapy. Three Minute Therapy goes to Ellis' basic theory on analyzing troublesome emotions and gives examples of how to determine the origin of the troublesome emotion (irrational beliefs) and change it into a useful, motivating emotion (by successfully disputing the irrational belief). Edelstein's approach to analyzing emotions is very clear, and easy to follow, and easy to do yourself. I have been able to apply his concepts to my own behavior, and to successfully defuse emotional upsetness on a regular/consistent basis. This book has given me a tool which I can use quite easily and effectively. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in understanding the emotional process, how to make emotions work for you in lieu of against you, and in learning to be critical of your behaviors without being critical of yourself. Three Minute Therapy is one of the most useful, pragmatic books I have ever read. |
An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
I've just finished the book cover-to-cover, and despite the seemingly frivolous title (kind of like "Six Minute Abs") and cheap jacket design, the book is exceedingly well-written, well thought-out, and very instructive.
Basically, the idea behind a lot of our troubles (fears/worry, procrasti- nation, overeating, anger, etc.) stem NOT from "not thinking positive enough" (the author quickly dispels this useless adage), but because we think too negatively; rather, we cling to irrational, or at least unfounded and detrimental, ideas and beliefs and "trick" ourselves into believing them.
Three-minute therapy involves identifying these irrational beliefs, actively challenging them, and then reinforcing the rational counterparts over and over again, for, you guessed it!, 3 minutes a day.
I have to say that for me, personally, it has helped me start to overcome my procrastination and overeating habits. I have yet to fully extend the philosophy to the rest of my life, but I'm anxious to do so.
Edelstein makes a few controversial statements (among them, that AA is a bunch of hogwash for alcoholics, and so is suppressed childhood trauma as the source of present-day emotional trouble), but overall he makes a strong case for a form of therapy that seems practical and highly effective.
The book is written in an informal style, and even imparts some humor. I really liked his list of some of the more ludicrous worries that some of his patients have had!
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