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Главный посыл понятен. Через осознанное пытаться поменять алгоритмы мышления и действия. В принципе, штука рабочая, вот только все это можно изложить в короткой брошюрке. Получается как обычно, немного масла размазываем на огромную булку хлеба.
Скучно стало и ничего нового для себя далее не вижу. Однако за расширение кругозора и новые навыки благодарочка книге и автору).

The book has some practices that are useful,its a book to take your time and work on it

This is the kinda basic stuff that everyone should learn about throughout elementary school.

So, if you didn't, this is one of those books you should definitely read... less you read something similar, or took college level courses of human development and basic psychology.

Readers can also skip over the last half of the book, less they need to know everything there is to know about anti-anxiety or anti-depression meds... This means the primary book is only about 380pgs, IIRC.

A classic - helps when your thoughts get the best of you.

This is essentially the same as my other review on his first book. The first like 450 pages of the book are good (albeit repetitive) but the final 250 are not very good. So it's an average book at best.

Use this book with other self help books on communication. I read it, but feel like I can't give it an honest review without existences work on the techniques in here. You have decided for yourself if these techniques work.

Helpful book!

It is a great book in that it give strategies and real world examples on how a self analysis can lead to chaning thought patterns which can lead to being happier.

The reason I rated the book 4 stars and not 5 is that it only talks about one aspect of fighting depression and ignores other aspects completely.
Other aspects are:

1. Environment (important but not covered)
-less stressful environment
-more nature
-people around that love you

2. Physical (important but not covered)
-enough sleep
- good nutrition
- Omega 3
-exercise
-anti-depressants

3. Positive Thoughts
3a. positive perception about your state (this is covered in detail, see below)

3b. lowering your expectations

It would have been OK to focus only on happiness by the right thought pattern. However, this not only means being more positive about yourself and your future, but also need to included lowering expectations!
I am talking from my own experience: I had often negative feelings but I was very confident and very optimistic and thought that I was very intelligent, good looking, wealthy, healthy etc. But I always wanted to be No. 1 in everything, and was unhappy that I was not achieving my goals. So people like me cannot be helped by becoming even more positive in the perception of themselves or more optimistic about the future. Instead we have to decrease our expectations. And just as their are techniques for improving your perception of reality, I developed techniques for decreasing my expectations so that I could be happy. These, as well as my other strategies for happiness, I describe here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xur...

Great strategies explained in the book, that make you more positive about yourself and your future:
1) All-or-nothing thinking: You look at things in absolute, black-and-white categories.
2) Over-generalization: You view a negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
3) mental filter: You dwell on the negatives and ignore the positives.
4) Discounting the positives: You insist that your positives don't "count."
5) Jumping to conclusions: (a) Mind-reading--you assume that people are reacting negatively to you when there's no definite evidence for this; (b) Fortune-telling--you arbitrarily predict that things will turn out badly.
6) Magnification or minimization: You blow things way out of proportion or you shrink their importance inappropriately.
7) Emotional reasoning: You reason from how you feel--ex. "I feel like an idiot, so I really must be one," "I don't feel like doing this, so I'll put it off."
8) Should statements: You criticize yourself or others with should's, shouldn't's, must's, ought's, and have to's.
9) Labeling: You identify with your shortcomings; instead of telling yourself, "I made a mistake," you tell yourself, "I'm a jerk, a fool, a loser."
10) Personalization and blame: You blame yourself for something you weren't entirely responsible for, or you blame other people and overlook ways that your own attitudes and behaviors contribute to a problem.

I have read this book a few times. I appreciate what it teaches and know it’s tools have helped me and still helped me. I recommend others to read this and to contemplate it’s information

Really well written book that will help anyone who is open to challenging their depression. I found it reassuring and gave concrete steps that will help you feel better and give you hope to get out of a depressive episode.

I read this on my mom's recommendation. Aware of how much I can't stand new-agey "power of positive thinking" crap, she knew I would really benefit from and enjoy the very concrete, no-brainer techniques Dr. Burns offers to combat a myriad of cognitive issues like anxiety, procrastination, poor self-talk, etc. It took me a little over a month to get through the whole book- it's HUGE, but the last 200 pages or so are really only necessary for practicing psychiatrists and therapists since they deal with medications and patient therapy best practices. There are a lot of work-book exercises (use a pencil so you can erase and do later if you want!) that really make you work through your flawed thinking patterns. Although I know I will need to be diligent in my practice of the techniques, I can already see how they are changing how I interact with myself, my surroundings, and other people. Highly recommend!