F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

Michael Bennett, M. D. · Sarah Bennett

Sep 2015 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

About this audiobook

Although other self-help books claim to reveal the path to happiness, F*ck Feelings warns that convincing yourself that there is such a path will actually lead you to feel like a true failure. What the Bennetts can promise you is that you can manage any situation life throws at you if you can keep your sense of humor, bend your wishes to fit reality, restrain your feelings, manage bad behavior, and do what you think is right. Life is hard. It's not fair. Our feelings cloud our rationality, and we become tangled in our efforts to achieve the impossible or change the unchangeable. In this groundbreaking, entirely sensible, and funny book, the Bennetts open the shrinks' secret solution manual and show you how to find a new kind of freedom by working toward realistic goals and doing the best with what you can control. They address the most common problems Dr. Bennett's patients bring to his private practice and give you a script for going forward. With no-bullshit advice from a Harvard-educated shrink freed of all jargon and patronization by his smart-ass, comedy writer daughter, F*ck Feelings is the cut-to-the-chase therapy session you've been looking for. Contains mature themes.

Ratings and reviews

I dont want to give up rights to have feelings or emotions. If I dont know who I am how can I improve? I had one therapist say I know myself better then most of their patients. I can see why therapist's lose most of their patients. I would too had I got into that profession. The father daughter dance was the best book I've read. Its probably out of print. :(

I wouldn't give this book any stars, but you have to. This book is awful!!! The author's view of life is very sad, depressing would be a better word please don't deposit this into your life!!!

Excellent self help book for touchy-feely types. Being a nice guy, I highly appreciated the frank "care a little less" suggestions. The approach is almost Stoicistic. Do what works. Book covers a huge range of issues, from parenting to dating to working under a difficult boss. Add to that some great humor and a no-nonsense, snarky, narrator and you have a great f-ing book.

About the author

Michael I. Bennett, MD, educated at both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, is a board-certified psychiatrist, Canadian, and Red Sox fan. He has been in private practice for over thirty years.

Sarah Bennett has written for the internet, television, a monthly sketch comedy show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York, and the arts section of her high school paper. She's also written two New York Times bestselling books of advice with her father.

Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews.