David D. Burns - The Feeling Good Handbook

FEELING GOOD

FEELS WONDERFUL

If you wake up in the morning dreading the day... if you have to force yourself to do anything... if you believe your work worthless... if you wilt under criticism... if you avoid intimate contact because you're convinced you're unattractive... if you consider yourself a born loser... you will probably benefit from the scientific and revolutionary way of brightening your mood and lifting your spirits without drugs or lengthy therapy.

The only tools you need are your own common sense and the easy-to-follow methods clearly spelled out in this book. With them, you can stop seeing things in ways that bring you down. You can say good-bye to procrastination, to sapping away of energy and ambition, to so many other forms of nagging depression, as you at last experience the joy of

PEELING GOOD

"A book to read and re-read!"---Los Angeles Times

"I will recommend this book to my students, colleagues and patients."Ari Kiev, M.D., Director,

Social Psychiatry Research Institute

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: DAVID D. BURNS, M.D. was graduated magna cum laude, from Amherst College, received his M.D. from Stanford University, and completed his psychiatric training at the University of Pennsylvania. There he has been one of the prime developers of Cognitive Therapy, upon which Feeling Good is based. In addition to treating patients, he teaches psychotherapy and drug therapy at the University of Pennsylvania and lectures to professional groups around the world. Among his many honors was the A. E. Bennett Award, the top psychiatric award to an investigator under thirty-five.

His most recent book is Intimate Connections available in a Signet edition.

Individuals wishing to contact the author may write to him at: David D. Burns, M.D. PresbyterianUniversity of Pennsylvania Medical Center 39th and Market Streets Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

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FEELING GOOD: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns, M.D.

Preface by Aaron T. Beck, M.D. The clinically proven, drug-free treatment for depression, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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FEELING

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The New Mood Therapy

DAVID D. BURNS, M.D.

Preface by

AARON T. BECK, M.D.

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This book is dedicated to my personal teacher, Aaron T.

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Preface

I am pleased that David Burns is making available to the general public an approach to mood modification which has recently stimulated much interest and excitement among mental health professionals. Dr. Burns has condensed years of research conducted at the University of Pennsylvania on the causes and treatments of depression, and lucidly presents the essential self-help component of the specialized treatment that has derived from that research. The book is an important contribution to those who wish to give themselves a "top flight"

education in understanding and mastering their moods.

A few words about the evolution of cognitive therapy may interest readers of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy.

Soon after I began my professional career as an enthusiastic student and practitioner of traditional psychoanalytic psychiatry, I began to investigate the empirical support for the Freudian theory and therapy of depression. While such support proved elusive, the data I obtained in my quest suggested a new, testable theory about the causes of emotional disturbances. The research seemed to reveal that the depressed individual sees himself as a "loser," as an inadequate person doomed to frustration, deprivation, humiliation, and failure.

Further experiments showed a marked difference between the depressed person's self-evaluation, expectations, the aspira-tions on the one hand and his actual achievementsoften very strikingon the other. My conclusion was that depression must involve a disturbance in thinking: the depressed person thinks in idiosyncratic and negative ways about himself, his environment, and his future. The pessimistic mental set affects his mood, his motivation, and his relationships with others, and leads to the full spectrum of psychological and physical symptoms typical of depression.