As a person suscepatable to episodes of depression I found this book very helpful with regard to finding usefull tools to combat a habitual pattern of negative thinking and mood swings. It starts with your awareness of the habitual thought patterns and putting the tools presented in the book to use
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
β Scribed by David D. Burns
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 394
- Edition
- First
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Explains how each individual can learn to control their moods through controlling the thought processes and changing the patterns of how things are perceived
β¦ Table of Contents
Preface
Contents
Introduction
PART I. THEORY AND RESEARCH
1. A Major Breakthrough in the Treatment of Mood Disorders
2. How to Diagnose Your Moods: The First Step in the Cure
3. Understanding Your Moods: You Feel the Way You Think
PART II. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
4. Start by Building Self-Esteem
5. Do-Nothingism: How to Beat It
6. Verbal Judo: Learn to Talk Back When YowβreUnder the Fire of Criticism
7. Feeling Angry? What's Your IQ?
8. Ways of Defeating Guilt
PART III. βREALISTICβ DEPRESSIONS
9. Sadness Is Not Depression
PART IV. PREVENTION AND PERSONAL GROWTH
10. The Cause of It All
11. The Approval Addiction
12. The Love Addiction
13. Your Work Is Not Your Worth
14. Dare to Be Average!βWays to Overcome Perfectionism
PART V. DEFEATING HOPELESSNESS AND SUICIDE
15. The Ultimate Victory: Choosing to Live
PART VI. COPING WITH THE STRESSES ANDSTRAINS OF DAILY LIVING
16. How I Practice What I Preach
PART VII. THE CHEMISTRY OF MOOD
17. The Consumerβs Guide to Antidepressant Drug Therapy
Suggested Reading
Index
β¦ Subjects
mental depression cognitive behavioral therapy psychology
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