Thoughts and Feelings
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Thoughts and Feelings

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eBook - PDF

Thoughts and Feelings

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface to the Fifth Edition
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. How to Use This Book
  5. CHAPTER 1: Making Your Own Treatment Plan
  6. CHAPTER 2: Uncovering Automatic Thoughts
  7. CHAPTER 3: Changing Patterns of Limited Thinking
  8. CHAPTER 4: Changing Hot Thoughts
  9. CHAPTER 5: Relaxation
  10. CHAPTER 6: Worry Control
  11. CHAPTER 7: Coping with Panic
  12. CHAPTER 8: Coping Imagery
  13. CHAPTER 9: Mindfulness
  14. CHAPTER 10: Defusion
  15. CHAPTER 11: Putting Values into Action
  16. CHAPTER 12: Getting Mobilized
  17. CHAPTER 13: Brief Exposure
  18. CHAPTER 14: Prolonged Exposure
  19. CHAPTER 15: Testing Core Beliefs
  20. CHAPTER 16: Changing Core Beliefs with Visualization
  21. CHAPTER 17: Stress Inoculation for Anger Control
  22. CHAPTER 18: Self-Compassion
  23. CHAPTER 19: Covert Modeling
  24. CHAPTER 20: Covert Sensitization
  25. CHAPTER 21: Problem Solving
  26. Chapter 22: Habit Reversal Training
  27. CHAPTER 23: When It Doesn’t Come Easy
  28. References and Resources
  29. About the Authors
  30. Index