Feeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better : Profound Self-Help Therapy For Your Emotions
Feeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better : Profound Self-Help Therapy For Your Emotions
“Feeling better,” says Dr. Albert Ellis, “is crucial to successful therapy. Getting better is even more important.” The most well-known and highly respected psychotherapist of our time offers a “three-pronged” system for maintaining — or regaining — emotional health. FEELING BETTER, GETTING BETTER, STAYING BETTER presents the author’s 50 years of psychotherapy experience and wisdom in a practical guide for the rest of us. Healthy thinking, healthy emotions, and healthy behavior are explained, with detailed examples and procedures for building lasting emotional well-being.
Features include:
–Practical advice from the most well-known psychologist of our time
–Helpful exercises, “how-to” procedures, expert guidance
–Distills a half-century of wisdom about human behavior into a concise manual
–Reader-friendly, warm, down-to-earth style
FEELING BETTER, GETTING BETTER, STAYING BETTER is especially helpful to:
–Individuals who are hurting emotionally and want to “get better”
–Anyone who wants to learn how to maintain emotional health
–Psychotherapy clients who want to enhance the effectiveness of therapy
–Serious readers of self-help and self-improvement
–Psychologists, divorce counselors, marriage and family therapists
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Dr. Ellis is KING
No pychologist has contributed more to cognitive-behavior therapy than Dr. Albert Ellis. I highly recommend this book for everyone! This book will enhance your well-being no matter current situation.
5 Stars Principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
In this book, Ellis shows the interested reader how Rational Emotive Therapy works, what the underlying philosphy is, and - most importantly - what you can do to get yourself out of emotional difficulties.
He emphasizes not only the aspect of feeling better, which many clients can more or less easily do (e.g. by exercising, meditating or distracting oneself from difficult feelings and situations). It is much more important to actually get better and permanently stay better. Ellis shows how you can achieve the kind of deep restructruring of your basic philosphies of life. He specifically recommends the use of the following techniques:
- Logical Disputing, e.g.: does it really follow that I am a worm if I am acting wormily?
- Realistic Disputing: Where is the evicence for my absolutist belief?
- Pragmatic Disputing: making cost-benefit ratios of short and long term benefits of my behavior and thinking patterns
To effectively dispute your irrational beliefs, you better dispute them cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally.
What I as a psychologist especially liked about this new book, are Ellis’ exemplary disputations of low frustration tolerance, self-downing and other downing. This can help clients considerably to apply the ideas to their real life problems.
A good book to use for bibliotherapy!
5 Stars The Best of Ellis
Those looking for the usual pampering and hand-holding need not look here. This book is for those who truly want to feel better, even if it means taking a sometimes-unpleasant look at their own behavior.
While this is not a manual for the seriously disturbed, those with more common issues will find a great deal of help, so long as they are willing to apply these principles.
5 Stars Listen to the Old Fox
In this book, Al Ellis tells you everything you need to achieve long-term freedom from emotional upset. He explains why certain modes of therapy are ineffective and counter-productive. Even if they do no harm, they do not deliver the help you need, as opposed to more efficacious modes of therapy, such as REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) and Cognitive Therapy. He distinguishes between merely palliative techniques, like Yoga and Meditation, which help you feel better, but do not lead to lasting improvement, and those which help you get better and stay better.
Ellis makes no bones about the fact that it is often difficult to achieve the changes you want to make - but that’s no reason for not doing so!
Having tried other therapeutic methods, until I discovered Dr. Ellis at one of his legendary Friday night workshops, I can tell you that if you stick to the principles laid out in this book, you will be the better for it.
5 Stars Fix your mind, fix your problems
This Ellis’s best book. How and what you think changes what you feel. Depression, anxiety, and other psych issues are impacted by what you think, what you say and how you say it.
This book can help almost anyone feel better, but first you have to read it.
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