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This therapy of Dr Burns is based on the premise that people create their own moods, and thus can learn to change the way they look and feel. He shows how to apply techniques and provides strategies for overcoming fears, phobias and panic attacks. He deals with hypochondria and various forms of social anxiety; improving intimate interpersonal communication; overcoming procrastination; coping with performance anxiety in public speaking, test-taking, and other activities.
Contents
Part 1 Understanding your moodsmeasure your moods; how to diagnose your moods; should you change the way you feel?. Part 2 Feeling good about yourself - how to conquer depression and build self-esteem: how to change the way you feel - the four steps to happiness; ten ways to untwist your thinking; how to develop a healthy personal value system; cognitive therapy in action: how to break out of a bad mood; why people procrastinate; a prescription for procrastinators. Part 3 Feeling confident - how to conquer anxiety, fears, and phobias: understanding anxiety; how to fight your fears and win; dealing with the fear of death; social anxiety - the fear of people; public speaking anxiety; how to give a dynamic interview when you're scared stiff; test and performance anxiety. Part 4 Feeling good together - how to strengthen relationships through better communication: good and bad communication; five secrets of intimate communication; how to change the way you communicate; how to deal with difficult people; why people can't communicate with each other. Part 5 Mood-altering medications: everything you need to know about commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. Part 6 For therapists (and curious patients) only - how to deal with difficult patients: the ingredients of therapeutic success - and failure!; empathy - how to establish rapport with the critical, angry patient; agenda setting - how to make therapy productive when you and your patient feel stuck; self-help assignments - how to motivate patients who sabotage the therapeutic process.
