Excellent Cognitive Therapy
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As a therapist I know this changing your thinking type book/CD can help me as well as others. Attended a workshop that Dr. Beck present. Excellent!
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This is an excellent book for people with cognitive deficits.  It addresses a wide variety of language based reasoning, problem solving and memory skills,.
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CBT is a good self help therapy for those who have a negative patterns of thoughts in my opinion,  because it deals with the core issues of your minds,based on the discussions in this book. It teaches you on how to reprogrammed your negative thinking to something positive and used it to empower yourself. Great and well detailed information!
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I've used this workbook successfully as a therapist at a community mental health clinic serving poorer clients in Tucson AZ. I've used it in individual and group therapy.  Frankly, I've found "Mind Over Mood" much more user-friendly than the more popular "Feeling Good Handbook" by David Burns, which contains similar cognitive therapy methods.  The "thought record" chart, in particular--the heart of CBT--is more straightforward in Mind Over Mood. They've set up seven intuitive columns, from left to right.  Burns's version of this chart, where each situation and emotion is listed separately at the top of the page, tends to confuse people, in my experience.
I really like the way Greenberger and Padesky put in little hint questions in small type at the bottom of the columns, to remind you what you're supposed to be doing without having to go back and read the text.  And the book is full of terrific hint boxes which give you questions to ask yourself if you're having trouble understanding the exercises.  I have not seen this anywhere else.
Defects? 1) This book doesn't contain the richness of material of the Burns or other CBT workbooks.  The chapters on specific conditions at the end are pretty paltry. It's really just a very large book on how to do a thought record.  2) The authors limit evaluating automatic thoughts to "evidence for", "evidence against", and a "reasonable alternative". This rigid empirical model is not suited to everyone or every situation. Surprisingly, there is no discussion of or columns for "cognitive distortions" (Burns) or "disputes" (Ellis).  This is a major defect, but one can work around it by expanding what is allowed in the "evidence against" columns.
Overall though, an excellent book for use in clinical settings with general mental health patients.  I find myself pulling it out much more often than my other CBT books sitting next to it on my shelf.  Once clients get the hang of cognitive therapy, I introduce more sophisticated material; but I haven't found a better starting point.
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This book is aimed at professionals, carers and suffers. It aims to provide a practical guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is an approach where suffers try to understand and recognize the onset on symptoms and then come up with behaviors that help that manage the condition. One of the foundations is trying to build self awareness and understanding. It also explains to carers how their own normal reactions and behaviors may make it more difficult to help and possibly exacerbate the condition.

The book is well written and organized and useful for its target audience.
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Dr. Shapiro has written an excellent introduction to the concepts underlying EMDR. The case examples are inciteful and moving. The self-help techniques are clearly explained and accessable. This book offers people hope to transform the experience of past trauma and reshape their lives. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified EMDR therapist, I will highly recommend this book to clients in my practice and to you.
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I am thoroughly enjoying this read, and the accompanying CD videos and lessons. The techniques are backed up scientifically, their are numerous studies supporting the evidence-based techniques on how to manage cognitive-load. I needed this information back when I was a kid so I could manage my cognitive-load with my instructors and teachers. It would have saved me so much frustration, and time. Thank you so much for this!
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Within the bounds of reality, the best diet book I could hope for. I bought the Beck Diet Solution six months ago, and I have been very happy with it. This book demands a fairly high level of commitment and compliance, but unlike simpler or easier diet plans, this one has actually worked for me.

The book uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to alter your eating patterns and help you develop the capacity to change your eating habits. In plainer terms, the reader makes certain commitments (such as planning meals in advance and writing down absolutely everything that is eaten), and the book includes psychologically relevant exercises to help you stick to those commitments.

There are many, many techniques/activities that the book introduces over a recommended 6 week program. Trying to do everything at once would have been very overwhelming for me. Even running through it over a longer period was a challenge. If you are very, very busy, this may not be the program for you.

That said, I lost 15 pounds in two months. Since then, I have wavered up and down by about 5 pounds, but I have maintained 10 pounds weight loss for six months. I would have been happy to lose a little more, but at least I have lost 10 pounds more than I was able to lose without the book.
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In their book. Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-based Practice, Richard Summers and Jacques Barber have done a perfect job accomplishing an almost impossible task. They have united a practical approach to psychodynamic psychotherapy with great intellectual depth with regard to difficult concepts. Moreover, they accomplish this task by using empirical evidence. As a training director, I could not ask for a more wonderful book for my students, who love this book!! As one of them wrote, "I liked the open-minded, flexible feel of it and the effort to sum up the evidence.." This student also noted that the authors do many other things, such as systematically incorporate positive psycholology. Thank you, Drs. Summers and Barber for this wonderful book.

Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, M.D.
Vice-chair, Graduate Medical Education
Department of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical Center
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Its over two years ago now since I've read this book and I still regularly pick it off the shelf as a reference book. I consider it one of the best books on Psychotherapy that I've read in the last few years (and I've read quite a lot). The reason why its so good is.

1. It provides a great understanding of the different attachment styles and how they may appear in your clients.
2. It includes how the therapists attachment styles would typically play out with the various attachment styles presented in clients.
3. It brings together in a consistent and clear way, knowledge from a broad range of modalities (intersubjectivity, mindfulness and general psychotherapy).

Most importantly it provides a very useful framework for working with attachment patterns in therapy and how to cultivate an internal "secure attachment" for self. This concept is very powerful, and through using mindfulness techniques to cultivate a loving and caring internal observer, clients can overcome their attachment wounds.

I also met David Wallin when he presented material from this book at a conference and I was happy to see that what he presented was a cogent representation of the contents of the book. If you were to purchase one book on attachment and how to work with it in therapy, this is THE BOOK TO BUY.
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Hello,

I just wanted to mention how remarkably helpful this book has been to so many of my clients.  I have also found it a worthwhile and personally liberating read.  There is an authenticity and compassion that is deeply present in the voice of this book.  The suggestions and techniques have a solid grounding in state of the art psychological research, yet they are presented in an engaging, humorous and humanistic way.  This book does not feel like a workbook or a self-help book.  It has the quality of a warm and significant conversation with someone who is invested in your well-being and your personal liberation.  I have recommended this book to very many clients, and they each have told me that it has meant something to them.  It is very rare that such a unanimous response occurs with bibliotherapy recommendations.  Also, this is one of the first books that my clients have referred to others in their lives whom they care about.  This is an important work.

Be Well,

Dennis

Dennis Tirch PhD,
Associate Director,
American Institute for Cognitive Therapy.
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor,
Weill Cornell Medical College.
Diplomate and Fellow,
Academy of Cognitive Therapy.
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It just doesn't get much better than this.  In this work, the editors pull together excellent articles on the nature of cognitive behavior therapy.  In contrast the myth, behavior analysts and therapists do not ignore cognitive material, conscious or nonconscious.  They merely approach it from a more empirical framework and with more parsimonious concepts.  Both adherents of behavior therapy and psychodynamic approaches will get a better understanding ot the two systems with this book.  The "unconscious" is not off-limits for either school, and this book shows how to discuss the issue most intelligently.
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This book has four authors, all of them leading professors in Psychotherapy or Medicine. But they write with one seamless, user-friendly, Sanjay Gupta-style voice. The three experts who gave us "Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression" are back. But this time Jon Kabat-Zinn joins the team, with his experience as both a professor of Medicine and a meditation instructor. And the new book is entirely addressed to ordinary people seeking help with depression, or just hoping for a happier mental life.

I like the tone. It's informal and insightful, comparing various people's experience of  mental suffering. There are patterns in how the judgments start, and how the struggle to "make things better" tend to make things worse. The patterns become entrenched habits, waiting to channel any experience down well-worn paths. The authors suggest an alternative response, which involves exploring more than fixing. It involves observing what we feel rather than trying to correct it. The authors apply the practice of mindfulness meditation to the problem of inner suffering, which is just what meditation was always meant to do. Much of the book and it's enclosed CD is simply a well presented guide to greater mindfulness and enjoyment of the present moment. It's one of the best introductions meditation I've seen, but it's tied to meeting ordinary human needs rather than presuming a spiritual motive. I'd advise the book for almost anyone.
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Love is Never Enough is one of the most practical, and useful books I have found in using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with couples. I have often enjoyed Aaron Beck and have heard him speak in person. His work with depression is wonderful as is his work on dealing with couples. His inclusion of checklists and practical illustrations made it easy to master and apply the material presented in his book. The impasse that often happens in couples therapy is now able to be navigated with the interventions and material presented by Beck. I have used his illustrations with couples who were then able to gain insight and move past the blockages in their communication deadlocks. The material on improving communications, overcoming distorted thinking and the power of thoughts has proven itself again and again. His insights on the clash of perspectives makes it easier to understand and explain to couples what is happening in their communication patterns.

This has proven itself with couples in therapy and is a must for any marriage and couples counselor.

Jeffrey Murrah<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/How-to-Cope-with-a-Cheating-Spouse/dp/B004GXAVZG/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">How to Cope with a Cheating Spouse</a>
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I can highly recommend Dr. David Schechter's MindBody Workbook.  A number of my psychotherapy patients who have been diagnosed with TMS have found the Workbook a useful tool.  It has helped them in their efforts to become  more aware of the feelings which are fueling their pain by providing them  with a structure for paying attention to their inner states and their  reactions to past and present events in their lives.  This increased  ability to be aware has been accompanied by relief of pain.
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Dr. Dan Short has constructed a very cohesive system of describing Milton H. Erickson's therapeutic techniques, perhaps the best I have ever seen. Short's six therapeutic strategies of progression, partitioning, distraction, suggestion, reorientation and utilization are elegant constructs that I believe may well organize all human helping behavior.

This is a extremely well organized and easy to understand treatment of Erickson's ingenious methods and may inspire the reader interested in psychotherapy and other forms of human empowerment to consider the ways in which he or she is practicing the craft.
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I am a psychotherapist who purchased this book after attending an OCD Conference and seeing one of its cowriters, Jon Hershfield, give several impressive workshops on effective treatment of those struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder.  The book has served both me and my clients quite well.  My knowledge of "the doubting disease" was initially rather workman-like in many respects, but reading this compassionately and insightfully written book really elevated my understanding of OCD and how to treat it.  Even more than that, however, it provided very pragmatic tips on how to instill hope and resilience in those who are seeking treatment.  One of the books many helpful features, for example, is that is contains experiential exercises.  Another helpful feature is that it is written in a warm, engaging, and encouraging tone that manages to be accessible without ever being simplistic or dumbed-down.  Whether you work with people dealing with OCD or have OCD yourself (and there many who fall into both camps), it might be quite helpful for you to read this book.  Strongly recommended.