Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life

Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life

Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life

Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life

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Overview

The comprehensive workbook for radically transforming your life—now in a fully revised and updated 40th anniversary edition!

If you are depressed, anxious, angry, worried, confused, frustrated, upset, or ashamed, please remember that you are not alone in your struggle with painful feelings and experiences. Everybody experiences emotional distress sometimes. It’s normal. But when the pain becomes too strong and too enduring, it’s time to take that important first step toward feeling better.

This fully revised and updated fifth edition of Thoughts and Feelings outlines twenty evidence-based techniques you can mix and match to create your own personal treatment plan for overcoming a range of mental health concerns—including worry, panic attacks, depression, low self-esteem, anger, and emotional and behavioral challenges of any kind. Customize your plan to address multiple concerns at once, or troubleshoot the thoughts and feelings that bother you most.

Used and recommended by the most renowned and respected therapists, this comprehensive mental health workbook offers all of the best psychological tools for quickly regaining mastery over your moods and emotions. It has already helped thousands of readers:

  • Challenge self-sabotaging patterns of thinking
  • Practice relaxation techniques to maintain self-control in stressful situations
  • Change the core beliefs that drive painful emotions
  • Identify and prioritize values for a more focused, fulfilling life 
 

Using proven-effective methods based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness, habit reversal, self-compassion, and more, this book will help you balance your emotions and start feeling better—about yourself, and about the world around you. It’s time, finally, to feel fully alive.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684035489
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 01/02/2021
Edition description: Fifth Edition, Revised, 40th anniversary
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 135,137
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Matthew McKay, PhD, is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has authored and coauthored numerous books, including The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, Self-Esteem, and Couple Skills, which have sold more than a million copies combined. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, and specializes in the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and depression.


Martha Davis, PhD, was a psychologist in the department of psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Santa Clara, CA; where she practiced individual, couples, and group psychotherapy for almost thirty years prior to her retirement. She is coauthor of Thoughts and Feelings, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, and Messages.

Patrick Fanning is a professional writer in the mental health field, and founder of a men’s support group in Northern California. He has authored and coauthored twelve self-help books, including Self-Esteem, Thoughts and Feelings, Couple Skills, and Mind and Emotions.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition vii

Acknowledgments ix

How to Use This Book xi

1 Making Your Own Treatment Plan 1

2 Uncovering Automatic Thoughts 15

3 Changing Patterns of Limited Thinking 27

4 Changing Hot Thoughts 47

5 Relaxation 59

6 Worry Control 69

7 Coping with Panic 85

8 Coping Imagery 105

9 Mindfulness 115

10 Defusion 127

11 Getting Mobilized 137

12 Putting Values into Action 153

13 Brief Exposure 165

14 Prolonged Exposure 181

15 Testing Core Beliefs 195

16 Changing Core Beliefs with Visualization 207

17 Stress Inoculation for Anger Control 219

18 Covert Modeling 233

19 Covert Sensitization 243

20 Problem Solving 253

21 When It Doesn't Come Easy 273

References and Resources 281

Index 287

Interviews

McKay resides in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area; Davis resides in Trinidad, CA; Fanning resides in Northern California.
 

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