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	• The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-step Program (Workbook) William J. Knaus New Harbinger Publications, 2006 - 315 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

really works

this is a great workbook. it has a lot of examples and even more ways to try to help. I found it very useful

Book has been quite a help

The book has been a slow read, but has had a lot of useful tips and strategies to help me overcome my problems with depression.

Some helpful ideas

A useful manual with a method, for a pernicious problem. Its approach will allow the reader to challenge trends of thought stemming from melancholia, i.e. depressive thoughts. It will take a lot of self-discipline to work through this book and may be beyond what someone in a depressive hole can muster.

One flaw is that the book takes the perfunctory slap at the Catholic Church, blaming it for labeling depression "a work of Satan". That theory is not mutually exclusive with the also Catholic approach to scruples, a disease with common characteristics to melancholy. The Roman Catholic Church pioneered psychological methods for dealing with melancholia, and to slam it for seeing the hand of Satan in the loss of vitality in depression is a cheap, inaccurate shot. (See for example, the excellent book by Massmann on nervous disorders and temperament.)

Conversely, the authors laud Buddhism for its approach to controlling the mind and errant thoughts. If you know much about Buddhism, you will realize that it is a very depressive philosophy, and will give rise to major depressive thinking IF you take it seriously. The life-hating philosophy of Buddhism, that life is illusion and to be born at all is bad news (to quote one book on Buddhism written by a Western practitioner), can easily engender a feeling of loss and hopelessness.

If you can ignore the author's twenty-first century American bias in favor of Eastern mysticism and against the Catholic Church, you will probably find it a useful method to identify and change the thinking that causes depression.

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Everyperson's Guide To Beating Depression

This book is an excellent self-help resourse for anyone fighting depression. It would be most helpful when used in conjunction with individual CBT sessions and appropriate medication.

Great product!

I have used this workbook professionally and would recommend it to other professions as well. This is also a wonderful aid for people who would like to do some work independent of their therapist.

In the 1950s, Albert Ellis pioneered a form of psychotherapy that combined ways of detecting and changing irrational thoughts with techniques for replacing negative behaviors with positive ones. This type of cognitive behavioral therapy, called rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) by Ellis, proved especially effective at relieving problems like anger, anxiety, and depression. In this book author William Knaus, a close associate of Ellis, develops the best REBT techniques into a powerful and comprehensive self-help workbook for the treatment of depression.

Following in New Harbinger?s tradition, this workbook is written in an easy-to-use, step-by-step format. It offers you powerful strategies for overcoming depression in simple, direct language, amply illustrated with stories and reinforced by techniques you can practice right away. Along with other New Harbinger titles like The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook and The Anger Control Workbook, this major CBT/REBT workbook for depression is destined to become a trusted resource for people with depression, recommended by therapists and sought out by people like you who are inspired to change their own lives for the better.

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