You Can Feel Good Again: Common-Sense Strategies for Releasing Unhappiness and Changing Your Life [Paperback]

Richard Carlson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1994

Richard Carlson has one simple message: changing your thinking changes your life. With You Can Feel Good Again, he offers a common sense method that allows anyone to release unhappiness and negativity related to present circumstances or past events, and return to a natural state of well-being in the present. You Can Feel Good Again is full of Richard Carlson's humor, wisdom, and thoughtful guidance--a genuine tool to foster the realization that happiness and contentment are truly "one thought away."

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Carlson ( You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Good News About Depression ) doesn't encourage his clients to attend therapy weekly. Frequent sessions, he asserts, don't make people happy; they only make clients brood about how miserable their lives are. Instead, what we think about, he believes, actually determines how optimistic or unhappy we are. " Your thoughts always create your emotions ," the author argues. Thus, the key to happiness is to replace negative thoughts with postive ones. Negative thinking, according to Carlson, is a habit like smoking or drinking that can be broken. So in effect, depression is the result of faulty thinking habits. Carlson's technique is based on the Psychology of Mind, a new branch of psychotherapy. Included here are case studies of clients he has treated using these principles. While Carlson demonstrates some common sense, much of the book seems glib and patronizing, as if people were machines that could be reprogrammed by pressing a few buttons. First serial to Cosmopolitan.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Carlson, a psychologist and author of You Can Be Happy No Matter What (New World Lib., 1992), contends that there may be a faster, easier way to stop depression and obtain happiness than through the traditional therapeutic method. Using theories based on "a new branch of psychotherapy" dubbed the "Psychology of Mind," Carlson theorizes that problems, regardless of their source, are actually exacerbated by prolonged examination. Happiness and mental health can instead be achieved by "making a commitment to happiness" and by intercepting and halting negative thoughts immediately and replacing them with more positive, mood-lifting thoughts. Case studies are included. This upbeat, commonsense approach may be helpful to those seeking an alternative to traditional therapy. Recommended for most self-help collections.
- Linda S. Greene, Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Plume; Second Edition edition (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452272424
• ISBN-13: 978-0452272422
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

During his life, Richard Carlson, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world and was a frequent featured guest on such shows as Oprah, The Today Show, The View, NNC, CNN, Fox, PBS and over 2000 other shows.Don't Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon with over 20 titles in the brand franchise, two of which were co-authored and authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.

The words "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" have become a part of American Culture thanks to Richard Carlson's book that became a runaway best-seller and made publishing history as the #1 best-selling book in the United States for two consecutive years.
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller list and is still considered one of the fastest selling books of all time and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.