Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

David D. Burns, M.D.

Nov 2012 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

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 bud
• Recognize what causes your mood swings
• Deal with guilt
• Handle hostility and criticism
• Overcome addiction to love and approval
• Build self-esteem
• Feel good everyday

This 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

Ratings and reviews

I found this book to be good for mild to moderate depression. David Burns has years of experience as therapist and he describes techniques that helped his patients. He describes the technique of talking back to our own self-criticism. Many people with depression have internalized the negative criticism of their family, or the society they live in. The cognitive therapy techniques described by David Burns help you talk back to the negative scripts or negative things you tell yourself. This book is very useful, but some people may still need to take an antidepressant or try other modalities. It also may not be useful for deep grief or deep emotional trauma. There used to be an associated workbook to go with the book to help write down your negative thoughts and then write out ways to talk back to them. ☆Example: --->Inner critique: "I didn't go running today, so I am a complete failure." ♡Talkback: "Stop. You are not lazy. You are not a failure. You went running yesterday."

Great book that is likely to help if you try to use the techniques outlined. The best part is that these techniques can be applied to everything one encounters in life. So, it not only has the power to help with depression, but also other negative events that may arise. I didn't think I'd be able to get through such a long read, but I decided to stop fortune telling and give it a try... I ended up reading the entire book effortlessly.

This book really helped see life in a new way and brought on a lot of very fundamental changes. It is written in a very simple, friendly language that is soothing in itself, but the exercises and techniques make it really truly work. Highly recommended reading for... pretty much anyone, as most of experience a lot of guilt, anger, sadness, anxiety that are completely unproductive and unnecessary.

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.