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A review by icecurtain
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns
5.0
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a valuable tool. This book introduces the concept, along with a few specific ways to try it out.
Mind you, this book isn't perfect. I think the author put too much emphasis in the beginning on a "bibliotherapy" study of people reading his book. I would think that some sort of workshop or structured group practice would be more effective than just handing a book to people and leaving them to their own devices.
I was tremendously entertained by the story of the woman who was certain she would have a bad reaction with medications.
The book refers often to "enhancements" - visual aids that may be packaged with the audiobook. I don't know if those were available or not through Libby. For the most part, I didn't miss them. However, the author apparently leaves off the last chapter entirely because of the dense detail (maybe it was talking about medications?) and felt that would be a useful reference, but not interesting to listen to.
This book could have gone more in depth on specific practices and techniques.
This isn't an incredibly great book. Cognitive behavioral therapy is, however, an extremely important concept, and that is why I am rating this highly. This book is useful for anyone who experiences depressive episodes, knows people with such emotional struggles, or has heard of Cognitive behavioral therapy and wants to understand it better.
Mind you, this book isn't perfect. I think the author put too much emphasis in the beginning on a "bibliotherapy" study of people reading his book. I would think that some sort of workshop or structured group practice would be more effective than just handing a book to people and leaving them to their own devices.
I was tremendously entertained by the story of the woman who was certain she would have a bad reaction with medications.
The book refers often to "enhancements" - visual aids that may be packaged with the audiobook. I don't know if those were available or not through Libby. For the most part, I didn't miss them. However, the author apparently leaves off the last chapter entirely because of the dense detail (maybe it was talking about medications?) and felt that would be a useful reference, but not interesting to listen to.
This book could have gone more in depth on specific practices and techniques.
This isn't an incredibly great book. Cognitive behavioral therapy is, however, an extremely important concept, and that is why I am rating this highly. This book is useful for anyone who experiences depressive episodes, knows people with such emotional struggles, or has heard of Cognitive behavioral therapy and wants to understand it better.