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The Feeling Good Handbook, also by David D. Burns, includes an explanation of the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, and details ways to improve a person's mood and life by identifying and eliminating common cognitive distortions, as well as methods to improve communication skills. Exercises are presented throughout the book to assist ...
He is the author of bestselling books such as Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, The Feeling Good Handbook and Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety. Burns popularized Albert Ellis's and Aaron T. Beck's cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) when his books became bestsellers during the 1980s. [1]
In Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, David Burns clearly distinguished between pathological "should statements", moral imperatives, and social norms. A related cognitive distortion, also present in Ellis' REBT, is a tendency to "awfulize"; to say a future scenario will be awful, rather than to realistically appraise the various negative and ...
Socializing may be the last thing you want to do when you're feeling depressed, but the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health notes that according to studies, "people who have strong social ...
In the book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy David D. Burns, a student of Aaron T. Beck, discusses in more detail the cognitive distortions. Burns explains arbitrary inference or "jumping to conclusions" with two of the most common examples of arbitrary inference: "Mind Reading" and "The Fortune Teller Error".
But if you want to turn that frown upside down, watching a feel-good movie is one of the best ways to instantly boost your mood. Feel-good movies are subjective but generally follow a few rules: 1 ...
We all have our bad days and sometimes a pick-me-up tune is all we need to turn our mood around (or at least calm us down for a while). Music is a great escape and finding that one, singular song ...
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