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National Bestseller – Over five million copies sold worldwide!From renowned psychiatrist Dr. David D. Burns, the revolutionary volume that popularized Dr. Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and has helped millions combat feelings of depression and develop greater self-esteem.Anxiety and depression are the most common mental illnesses in the world, affecting 18% of the U.S. population every year. But for many, the path to recovery seems daunting, endless, or completely out of reach.The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other “black holes” of depression can be alleviated. 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, enabling you to:Nip negative feelings in the budRecognize what causes your mood swingsDeal with guiltHandle hostility and criticismOvercome addiction to love and approvalBuild self-esteemFeel good everydayThis groundbreaking, life-changing book has helped millions overcome negative thoughts and discover joy in their daily lives. You owe it to yourself to FEEL GOOD!”I would personally evaluate David Burns’ Feeling Good as one of the most significant books to come out of the last third of the Twentieth Century.” ?– Dr. David F. Maas, Professor of English, Ambassador University

David D. Burns
April 6, 1999
706 pages
English
978-0380731763

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“A book to read and re-read!” — Los Angeles Times”I would personally evaluate David Burns’ Feeling Good as one of the most significant books to come out of the last third of the Twentieth Century.” — Dr. David F. Maas, Professor of English, Ambassador University From the Back Cover 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.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. About the Author David D. Burns, M.D., a clinical psychiatrist, conveys his ideas with warmth, compassion, understanding, and humor unmatched by any other writer in the self-help field. His bestselling Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy has sold more than three million copies to date. In a recent national survey of mental health professionals, Feeling Good was rated number one—from a list of more than one thousand—as the most frequently recommended self-help book on depression. His Feeling Good Handbook was rated number two in the same survey.Dr. Burns’s entertaining teaching style has made him a popular lecturer for general audiences and mental health professionals throughout the country as well as a frequent guest on national radio and television programs. He has received numerous awards including the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Through the Media Award from the Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology. A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College, Dr. Burns received his medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is currently clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is certified by the National Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter OneA 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 psychotherapy 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. Read more <div id="

  • Wish I had read through more reviews before I bought it. And I actually read the WHOLE book, it is long with very small print. The author believes that depression ONLY comes from feelings that are distorted from reality. He does not believe depression can arise from dealing with death or illness or disability or loss of marriage or other trauma (only if your feelings are distorted and you have low self esteem). People in his examples frequently say how they feel worthless. He ends up magically changing their lives by pointing out that, wow, they have worth and then they’re cured. To deal with people who put you down he suggests that you agree with them, “yes, I am a piece of crap”. He believes that anger is not a real emotion, it is just a state of mind that we put ourselves in in response to things that happen to us so we should have enough control not to suffer from it. For the woman who’s step daughter is abusive and rude to her and steals from her his advice is to just accept that this is how she is so as to not be upset over it (and not cause an issue with her spouse). Apparently he has never heard of making sure you are heard, respected and setting boundaries. To the wife whose marriage had centered around abuse and indifference and whose husband left her for another woman, he supports her use of limited contact, then praise, sex and affection to win him back and he does come back. Is she so weak that she wants that back again? For the woman whose husband cheated but wouldn’t leave her his advice was, “try to understand how HARD this was for him”. Maybe he should have helped her learn to value herself more than keeping a cheating husband and she wouldn’t feel so WORTHLESS. The author speaks endlessly about how great his method is and how great he is, many pages on that but he is clearly very misogynistic. Cognitive Therapy is real, but it is also not the only helpful method out there. Also, depression that is NOT based on low self esteem is real too and he does a real disservice to suggest otherwise. It became apparent to me as I read through the book that it does not appear to have been updated since its original publication date of 1980. I read the whole book, hoping to learn something of value. The best section is the “Consumer’s Guide to anti-depressant medications” in the back of the book. I would highly recommend finding an alternative.
  • The ideas in this book are so simple, yet so powerful. We all have an inner voice (the Buddhists call it “monkey mind”) that creates thoughts in our brain. These thoughts then make us feel a certain way. In knowing that our thoughts create how we feel, we can drastically improve the quality of our lives.This book shows that it’s not what happens to us in life, it’s what we think about it.For example, say you lose your job. Many people would then catastrophize and think negative thoughts about how awful it was, how we’re going to be homeless and go broke and then we get depressed. Instead of thinking like that, we should think realistically about how it’s tough that we lost our jobs, but we’ll eventually find another one and that we will overcome the current crisis.I was a pessimist for years. Negative thinking becomes a habit and changes brain chemistry. By thinking more realistically and talking back to our negative thoughts, we can live much happier lives.
  • Let me start by saying I have been an Amazon customer for twenty years and I have *never* reviewed anything before. But I consider this book to important for me to keep my mouth shut. It was a life-changer for me. Don’t know why some reviewers are saying it is not helpful for people with severe depression – maybe some people with severe depression need a different approach, but let me speak for the rest of us. I was having suicidal thoughts, and on the highest doses of meds available. I was also in therapy. I tried two different therapists, both of whom wanted to talk about other people in my life – my parents, my husband, etc. – which was not helping me at all. I was at my wit’s end, really scared that I was going to hurt myself if things didn’t get better soon, when a friend recommended this book. You have to do the exercises – yes, they seem silly, but if they work, who the heck cares? Get a nice little notebook and a pen that you enjoy writing with. I made mine a sort of journal that I doodled in and added little inspirational quotes here and there. And yes, it is deceptively simple. Again, who cares? If standing on my head and whistling “Dixie” would have made me feel this much better, I’d be doing that, too. I started reading the book a month ago. I do not do all the excercises, but I did try all of them. I do what works for me. It’s also true that there is the usual filler crap that you get in self-help books “Janet is a 40-year old dental assistant who came to me in 2005 suffering from…” blah, blah, blah. Just skip it. My depression is so much better that I am shocked. I am no longer thinking about suicide, and I am actually able to picture a future that is not completely empty and black. A future!!!!!! I have not had a future in years! I can’t express what that means to me, but if you have depression, I don’t have to. Try the book. If it doesn’t work, I hope you will try something else, and keep on trying. You are not alone, and you deserve to be happy.
  • Readable but long winded.A concise version of this book,Get YOURSELF into the habit of painting pictures in your mind’s eye of how you really want to be.Fantasize about YOU being confident, happy, prosperous, wealthy, sociable ,,,,,, etcThe more you do this, the more you generate good feelings, the more your subconscious mind take notice, the more your subconscious makes YOU act like that.Habits, mental or physical, take 90 days to form ….. GET BUSY!!Think failure to achieve failure, think SUCCESS to achieve SUCCESS!You get more of what you focus on.An exampleIn a book by a world famous hypnotist, he tells of an experiment conducted with a group of manic depressives. Their task was to collect photos of any happy times in their life and stick them to surfaces such a fridge doors along with smiley face pictures. They had to have them all over the home and in the work place if allowed.Each time one of these depressives looked at a ‘happy time photo’ or smiley face picture, they had to force themselves to picture a happy situation in their mind so to allow good feelings.The experiment was a three month period. When assessed after the three months, it was found that the brains of those in experiment had been “rewired” and total contrast to the former manic depressive state they’d been in. They were now happy and had an optimistic outlook on life.
  • Badly, cheaply printed. Can’t read the middle of the pages as the margins are so tight – see pictures. Some pages have black print, others a faded, fuzzy light grey. Terrible publishing.Can’t comment on the content because I can’t read it. I’ll buy a decently printed second hand copy instead.
  • I was having suicidal thoughts, and on the highest doses of meds available. I was also in therapy. I tried two different therapists, both of whom wanted to talk about other people in my life – which was not helping me at all. I was at my wit’s end, really scared that I was going to hurt myself if things didn’t get better soon, when a friend recommended this book. You have to do the exercises – yes, they seem silly, but if they work, who the heck cares? Get a nice little notebook and a pen that you enjoy writing with. I made mine a sort of journal that I doodled in and added little inspirational quotes here and there. And yes, it is deceptively simple. Again, who cares? If standing on my head and whistling “Dixie” would have made me feel this much better, I’d be doing that, too. I started reading the book a month ago. I do not do all the excercises, but I did try all of them. I do what works for me. It’s also true that there is the usual filler crap that you get in self-help books “Janet is a 40-year old dental assistant who came to me in 2005 suffering from…” blah, blah, blah. Just skip it. My depression is so much better that I am shocked. I am no longer thinking about suicide, and I am actually able to picture a future that is not completely empty and black. A future!!!!!! I have not had a future in years! I can’t express what that means to me, but if you have depression, I don’t have to. Try the book. If it doesn’t work, I hope you will try something else, and keep on trying. You are not alone, and you deserve to be happy.
  • Fascinating book that helps me think more clearly and avoid avoid cognitive distortions. It’s surprising how easy it is to jump to incorrect conclusions and after reading this book it helps you stop doing that. It’s changed the way I view the world significantly, an excellent book.
  • Do a favour for yourself and buy it! I was unable to read anything whatsoever, could not focus. Took the book in hand and started reading and it felt good. This book has helped me a lot and I keep it on my shelf whenever I need some reassurance.

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