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	• Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again Jeffrey E. Young, Janet S. Klosko Plume, 1994 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The case studies they had as examples were dry & boring. Felt very white-bread. But I'm all for any approach that uses active exercises to make change, rather than just RECOGNIZING that you have problems and that's automatically gonna revamp your life. You've gotta WORK at it.

Furthermore, I felt they tried to cram too much advice into each chapter--some of the "lifetraps" can be a whole separate book! But as the authors instruct, you can follow similar exercises to get over all your "lifetraps".

Worth adding to your self-help library and esp. if you can get it at a good price!

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Great book

This book, along with "Feeling Good" by David Burns, has helped me tremendously. As an abused and abandoned child, I have grown up to have issues with just about everything in this book. This book really helps you see WHAT you do that keeps you so self-destructive, and WHY you do it. When you understand this, it's much easier to change the behavior. All you have to do to make a significant change is to change your thinking!

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Very useful

For those of us who have read endless books on Cognitive / Bahaviour approaches to depression, anxiety and personality disorders, this one is most welcome: First of all, it is not simplistic, naive and patronising, like it often is with self help books. Second, the authors can empathise and demonstrate knowledge of 'what it feels like'. Third, the book is not solely based on the main principle of cognitive therapy that changing your thinking is the first step to changing your emotions. The authors describe how learning patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving in childhood can affect adult life; these patterns, often hidden under totally different circumstances, appear again and again. The authors make this pattern abstraction and repetition very clear, and suggest ways that this can be broken. This is the popular book version of the authors' research on schema theory; it is a very balanced book, addressing emotions and thoughts in a way that the dry cognitive therapy approach cannot achieve. It has been the most helpful book to me to date, and I strongly recommend it to anyone who has had enough of naive readings and is seriously looking for explanations, answers and suggestions.

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