Beating the Comfort Trap

by Windy Dryden, Jack Gordon

Using the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy, popularized by Dr Paul Hauck, this book helps people deal with discomfort in life and offers advice on how to cope when things are not going as planned. It tells how to get things done, achieve goals and overcome inertia. The book covers the problems of those who take a masochistic approach to life's frustrations, and those who use "quick fixes" such as alcohol and drugs. It looks at the different types of discomfort people face in their lives, and discusses how to overcome the emotional problems which can result when things do not work out, such as anger, depression and self-pity.

Genres: Self Help

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 16, 1993

About the author

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT and has trained with Drs. Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, and Arnold Lazarus.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey, and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.