|
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated |  | Author: David D. Burns
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
Buy Used: $0.01
as of 11/7/2009 22:45 CST details
You Save: $7.98 (100%)
New (63) Used (164) Collectible (3) from $0.01
Seller: green_earth_books
Rating:  236 reviews
Sales Rank: 4082
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 736
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0380810336
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.852706
EAN: 9780380810338
ASIN: 0380810336
Publication Date: October 1, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Tell A Friend
| |
| Features:
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
FEELING GOOD FEELS WONDERFUL
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 ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression.- Recognize 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 BEGIN NOW, TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF FEELING GOOD
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 236
 feeling bad about buying ... feeling good November 4, 2009
smorty (California, USA)
Very wordy, simplistic view of depression.
If you weren't depressed before reading this book, you will be after!
 I feel better after reading this book October 25, 2009
Eric Perich (california)
The first few chapters of this book is what really helped me discover that my own negative and pessimistic thoughts and perspectives is what was keeping me feeling depressed. This book can also help you feel better by discovering your own negative thinking patterns. Dr. Burns shows you how to feel better and how to accomplish this through easy exercises, and through doctor patient dialogue.
I feel this book is a must read for anyone who is deppressed and wants to feel better.
What about chronic fatigue and other symptoms that can't be addressed through talking to one's self October 15, 2009
not a natural (huntington, west virginia United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An increasingly conspicuous symptom of depression is chronic fatigue. It is especially troublesome because, whether or not it pre-dates or post-dates the onset of depression, it severly aggravates that condition.
Chronic fatigue associated with depression may or may not be accompanied by insomnia or other forms of sleep disorder. In any case, the effects of chronic fatigue as related to depression can be devestating.
In spite of the fact that chronic fatigue is a symptom reported by more and more depressed people, the author of Feeling Good simply blows it off in one sentence. A very fair paraphrase of his response to chronic fatigue is "get over it."
It is not difficult to see why the author might very well adopt this stance. After all, how does one change cognitive behavior to address chronic fatigue? The same applies to insomnia.
I once went to a cognitive behavior therapist who told me, "You can't always sleep eight hours, but you can always rest eight hours." I didn't know whether to laugh or punch him. When I exercised retraint and merely laughed, he became furious -- derisive, contemptuous, dismissive -- all the wrong responses to someone who felt as if he were on the edge and ready to fall off. Cognitive therapists, it may be, are inordinately hostile to those who are not easily sold on their product. But of course this is just an anecdote.
One of the tenets of coginitive therapy, repeated again and again by the author of Feeling Good, is that just because you feel something does not make it real. This assertion, in effect, is an admonition to dismiss as unreal and therefore inconsequential all subconcsious processes.
One need not be an orthodox Freudian to to be suspicious of this claim. After all, feeling bad has to have a provenance. I don't know of any one who simply decides, "Oh, what the Hell, I'm going to feel lousy about myself." Anyone who is a student of developmental psyhology, and who takes the psyche seriously as an extraordinarily complex, poorly understood set of neurological structures, would have very serious reservations about the Feeling Good diagnosis, process, and outcome.
Recent, widely reported research, has found that trying to think in a way that is sharply at odds with how you feel can be quite harmful. It is, in effect, a systematic form of denial that makes things worse rather than better.
All tolled, I've concluded that Feeling Good is a lucrative exercise in psychotherapeutic charlatanism. Yes, good mental health care is increasingly hard to find, so in desperation we turn to psychological potboilers such as this. All to the benefit of the author. A truly sad set of circumstances.
 Most valuable book for overcoming depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems September 24, 2009
C. menzies
I've recommended this book to multiple friends and family members as something that helped me greatly where counseling and analyzing were ineffective. I wish I had read this book as a teenager before many years of struggling with depression and anxiety. While counseling sessions left me to find my own answers time and again, this book introduced practical concrete steps to take in order to teach myself how to change my thinking. If you've felt frustrated with the ambiguity of what it means to "get better," and how to take steps toward that, please read this book and practice the exercises it explains. It is full of insights, easy to read and accessible to people of all different levels. It addresses the thought patterns and specific thoughts that underlie self-hatred, fear, shyness, anger management problems, and many other issues. Though the writing may initially seem like the language of an infomercial, or pop-psychology work that will be all pulp, don't let it throw you off of the great information within it.
Should be mandatory reading August 26, 2009
James Leis (Virginia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Feeling Good" is a clearly written book on managing one's own emotions, thoughts and therefore ones' life. Burns clarifies with real life examples and practical measurable exercises to reinforce positive mental habits for a lifetime.
I stumbled upon this book as a young man researching a paper for a psychology course. I read it and immediately felt that in cognitive psychology I had found a new home.
Years later I read it again, just as a refresher, and the book burst alive for me again. There are several reasons this book is so fantastic. First and foremost is the message: "As a person you have free will. Therefore in the space between every stimulus and response, you can inject your choice."
You are free to control your own actions and emotions. It's really that simple. The rest of the book goes on to explain how to do that. And there is the second reason this book shines; most business and self-help books are really just cheer leading exercises with remarkably short half lives. You have to keep reading new ones or the high doesn't last. "Feeling Good" is useful because it's eminently practical and measurable. You can literally track your daily progress and build life long habits that buttress the mind.
Lastly, I appreciate Burns for his clarity and style, with clean examples and reasoning. This is a book that comes across rarely, with a lot to say and said well.
So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 236
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. . | |
