A Complete Guide To Feeling Good

By Fast Knowledge Books

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO FEELING GOOD

 

MAIN THEORIES, CONCEPTS AND METHODS

 

You will learn the answers to the following questions based on the bestseller theories, concepts and ideas:

 

How To Increase Positive Thoughts?

How To Break The Cycle Of Mental Poison?

How To Lessen The Attacks Of Depression?

What Precedes The Different Emotional States?

Does Self-Confidence Defend Us From Depression?

What Are The Consequences Of A Distorted Reality?

Can Thought Be Controlled To Eliminate Negative Beliefs?

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

You might become less pessimistic by keeping a close watch on your thoughts. The use of a tool that helps you count the times you have a problem with gloomy thoughts to track how frequently you have unpleasant perceptions is one of the practical and systematic approaches that CT gives to alter your beliefs. This is one of the ways that you can modify your beliefs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Nov 4, 2022

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INTRODUCTION

David D. Burns obtained his medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine close to half a century ago, and soon after that, he completed his psychiatric residency study at the University of Pennsylvania. Aaron T. Beck, who is considered to be the father of cognitive therapy, was also doing groundbreaking work in the area of psychology at that time. Beck was confident that depression was a cognitive issue and not only an emotional condition, in contrast to what Freud and the majority of psychoanalytic theories asserted about depression.

Working closely with depressed patients, Beck came to the realization that a large number of them actually had a lot of friends and were able to accomplish a lot in life despite being trapped inside an emotional prison, which caused them to feel like losers and outcasts who did not deserve love. Beck came to this conclusion after realizing that a large number of depressed patients actually had a lot of friends and were able to accomplish a lot in life.

Cognitive therapy (CT) is predicated on the notion that an individual's emotions are influenced by their views of themselves, the connections in their life, the job they do, and their lives in general. David D. Burns, Ph.D., took what he had learned from Beck and used it