Is Suicide Justified?
Dear Doctor David, I read your book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, with much interest. I think almost all what you say still applies today. But I have a question: in the book when you discuss suicide, you don’t mention physical pain as a reason. I...Anxiety and Magical Thinking
Hi web visitors, The following is a note about anxiety that I just sent to my Tuesday training group at Stanford this week, and it occurred to me that you might find it of interest. You may need the definition of Outcome Resistance and Process Resistance to grasp the...Does Mental Illness Exist?
Hi Dr. Burns, I am halfway through “feeling good”, I just want to say how powerful it is. It is absolutely fantastic so far. I am applying your techniques to myself. Do you mind me asking, and this is nothing to do with my health, is the whole idea of low...Unraveling Decades of Abuse
This is an interesting and unsolicited endorsement I just received from someone who I think has been reading one of my books, probably Feeling Good. Dear Dr. Burns, Amazing book!!!! You are helping me unravel decades of abuse and realistically–no fake positivity...