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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
by David D. Burns, M.D.
Feeling Good introduces cognitive therapy for depression, arguing that changing distorted thinking improves mood and behavior. David D. Burns presents a self-help, evidence based approach that makes cognitive techniques accessible to readers and supports them with exercises and case examples.
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Feeling Good introduces cognitive therapy for depression, arguing that changing distorted thinking improves mood and behavior.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Burns presents a self-help, evidence based approach that makes cognitive techniques accessible to readers and supports them with exercises and case examples.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Burns explains depression as primarily arising from distorted thinking patterns, although he acknowledges biological and situational factors.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
He emphasizes that habitual negative interpretations of experience—automatic thoughts and core beliefs—are central causes that can be changed.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Burns presents the cognitive model: events lead to automatic thoughts, which produce emotional and behavioral responses, and these are shaped by deeper core beliefs.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Changing the chain of thoughts can therefore change feelings and behavior.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Key takeaways
Cognitive therapy focuses on identifying and changing maladaptive thoughts to alter feelings and actions.
Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyDepression is not simply a chemical imbalance; thinking patterns play a central role in creating and maintaining low mood.
Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyThe book offers practical self
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapyhelp tools that patients can use independently or alongside professional therapy.
Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyAdopt the mindset that thoughts influence mood and be willing to practice cognitive techniques regularly.
Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyThe chapter frames the book's core claim that mood can be improved by systematic cognitive work, making psychotherapy principles usable by nonprofessionals. This sets expectations for practical exercises and a skills-based approach to managing depression.
Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyFeeling Good introduces cognitive therapy for depression, arguing that changing distorted thinking improves mood and behavior. David D. Burns presents a self-help, evidence based approach that makes cognitive techniques accessible to readers and supports them with exercises and case examples.
Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyNegative automatic thoughts and ingrained maladaptive beliefs produce and sustain depressive moods.
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