10 Days To Great Self Esteem - Softcover

Burns, Dr David; Burns, D R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091825628 ISBN 13: 9780091825621

Publisher: Vermilion, 2000

Synopsis

Do you wake up dreading the day? Do you feel discouraged with what you've accomplished in life? Do you want greater self-esteem, productivity, and joy in daily living?

In 10 Days to Great Self Esteem, Dr Burns offers a powerful tool providing hope, compassion, and healing for people suffering from low self-esteem, unhappiness or depression. In ten easy steps you will learn specific techniques to enhance self esteem, productivity and happiness. You will learn techniques that will help you change the way you think, feel and behave. The ideas are based on commonsense and are easy to apply. You will learn that:

*You feel the way you think: negative feelings do not actually result from bad things that happen but from the way you think about these events.
*You can change the way you feel: you will discover why you get so moody and learn how to brighten your outlook when you're feeling sad or depressed.

About this title

Review:

Self-help books are now such a recognised part of the therapy canvass they have been called bibliotherapy. However Dr David Burns, a psychiatry professor with 20 years clinical experience, accepts the limits of any book to cure those with serious mental health problems. But his book 10 Days to Great Self-Esteem offers a very practical step-be-step guide which could help most of us feel better about ourselves.

Full of charts and assignments, this book has no use for discovering why you might feel low. Instead it uses cognitive behavioural therapy which means think about it a different way and you'll feel different. "Your thoughts--not events--create your moods. Bad things that happen do not really cause us to become upset. We get upset because of the way we think about these events", explains Burns. If you have persistent negative thoughts, Burns suggests a cost-benefit analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of thinking that way. Seeing it written down makes it much easier to challenge.

The idea of Burns' approach is to raise self-esteem to the point that self seeks to matter. That, says Burns, is incredibly freeing. His approach links self-improvement to the Buddhist ladder to nirvana, combining eastern and western thought in an easy-to-use practical package. --Laura Marcus

Book Description:

The proven, revolutionary way to find happiness and build confidence without drugs or therapy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vermilion
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0091825628
• ISBN 13: 9780091825621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336