Cognitive Behavior Therapy: CBT Fundamentals and Applications: CBT To Cure Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Beat Back Against Natural Phobias

by Nathan Bellow

Stop Allowing Your Stress, Anxiety, and Phobias to Rule Your LifeWith Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you can eliminate anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse reliance and begin to live your life the way you’ve always wanted.This book demands to understand why you’re living a sub-par life. Why are you allowing your stress, anxiety, depression, and eating disorders to persuade you to stay in your room, in your little house, without actively seeking power, fun, and LIFE? You are currently a prisoner to your emotions, to your thoughts and feelings. And you need to break the ties to these feelings in order to live, truly, for the first time. Create a Plan of Action to Fight Back Against Your NegativityYour thoughts have the ultimate say in what you do, how you act, and how you succeed. Therefore, you need to learn to TRAIN your thoughts to allow you to do what you want. You must disallow your thoughts from allowing you to let things bother you. You must disallow your thoughts to have overall depressive powers on you. Only then, can you truly reach success and happiness.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Breathes Life Back into Your MindThe dull, cyclical pattern of your life is over. Your reliance on your substance abuse is over. Your depression, anxiety, and fear can be rectified. You are so much more than your thoughts. Stop bowing to them. Live like you’ve always wanted. You deserve it.

Genres: Psychology

54 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 31, 2014

Reviews

[Su · Rating 2 out of 5]

While this is a good overview of the material, at 54 pages long for eight chapters (oops, I didn't notice that before buying) there really isn't enough depth to cover more than basic fundamentals and some history behind it. So this is really for an overview or understanding what it is and isn't. It's definitely not a self-help book or reference manual, but more of an introduction to what CBT is and how it might help you. It's targeted as advice towards people who want to help themselves.

While the techniques seem okay, they are quite abbreviated and there's little context or practical exercise. Deep-seated problems are likely to need more treatment than a two-page "3-Week Anti-Anxiety CBT Plan". My understanding of CBT is that it involves constant assessment, positive reframing and eliminating negative thought patterns and/or a staged exposure therapy procedure. There isn't enough exercise or guidance here to fulfill this, nor enough (if the reader is suffering) motivation and feedback to get them to start, appreciate their progress and keep going. Ironically, the people most likely to benefit from it are least likely to be reading it, or doing it if they do read it.

Also of note, there is no bibliography or citations supporting the work.