The Feeling Good Handbook [Import] [Hardcover]

David D. Burns (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 587 pages
• Publisher: Morrow; 1st edition (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688017452
• ISBN-13: 978-0688017453
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More 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.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Please read this, December 16, 1999

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John Secor (Troy, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Feeling Good Handbook (Hardcover)

Dr. Burns challenges us up front with a notion: we can change the way we feel if we change the way we think.

If you follow through on the "Feeling Good Handbook" you'll have little room to disagree with him. Dr. Burns' thorough review of mental fallacies should force you to retreat to complete self cognitive analysis.

If you make an concerted effort to apply what Dr. Burns' suggests. you should notice a difference in every day life.

This is a book that requires more than one read. To completely absorb and then apply what he recommends in one reading would be impossible. Keep it on a shelf within near reach.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best self-help books on the market today!, April 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Feeling Good Handbook (Hardcover)

This book is excellent. It uses time proven cognitive therapy principles and lists them in an easy to understand and use format. This book is a must for all readers. The money you save verses seeing a therapist makes it a great bargin. I'm not saying it should replace your therspist. But it follows cognitive therapy to a tee--it helps to teach you to become your own therapist

5.0 out of 5 stars If you're in need of therapy, July 14, 2011

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m.b.l. - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Feeling Good Handbook (Hardcover)

This book is great. Using this book in conjunction with therapy really helped me to reinforce what I was learning and change my thinking patterns. I recommend it to all my friends who I think could use it. I must warn you... if you don't really want to put in the effort to get healed from your depression etc.... this book is a waste of money. If you really want help and are willing to work to get improvement... this is a worthwhile investment.