The feeling good handbook / David D. Burns.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding Your Moods -- You Can Change the Way You Feel -- How to Measure Your Moods -- How to Diagnose Your Moods -- Should You Change the Way You Feel? -- Feeling Good About Yourself: How to Conquer Depression and Build Self-Esteem -- How to Change the Way You Feel: The Four Steps to Happiness -- Ten Ways to Untwist Your Thinking -- How to Develop a Healthy Personal Value System -- Cognitive Therapy in Action: How to Break Out of a Bad Mood -- Why People Procrastinate -- A Prescription for Procrastinators -- Feeling Confident: How to Conquer Anxiety, Fears, and Phobias -- Understanding Anxiety -- How to Fight Your Fears and Win -- Dealing with the Fear of Death -- Social Anxiety: The Fear of People -- Public Speaking Anxiety -- How to Give a Dynamic Interview When You're Scared Stiff -- Test and Performance Anxiety -- Feeling Good Together: How to Strengthen Relationships Through Better Communication -- Good and Bad Communication -- Five Secrets of Intimate Communication -- How to Change the Way You Communicate -- How to Deal with Difficult People -- Why People Can't Communicate with Each Other -- Mood-Altering Medications -- Answers to Your Questions about Commonly Prescribed Medications -- The Complete Consumer's Guide to Antidepressant Medications -- The Complete Consumer's Guide to Anti-Anxiety Medications -- For Therapists (and Curious Patients) Only: How to Deal with Difficult Patients -- The Ingredients of Therapeutic Success--and Failure! -- Empathy: How to Establish Rapport with the Critical, Angry Patient -- Agenda Setting: How to Make Therapy Productive When You and Your Patient Feel Stuck -- Self-Help Assignments: How to Motivate Patients Who Sabotage the Therapeutic Process.

With an up-to-date section on everything you need to know about commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs and anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this remarkable guide can show you how to feel good about yourself and the people you care about. You will discover that life can be an exhilarating experience.