The Feeling Good Handbook, written by Dr. David D. Burns, was used in a program at PARC (Palo Alto Research Community) for the rehabilitation of veterans who were homeless. It uses the principles of Cognitive Psychology to change a person's mood. It covers many aspects of communication skills and terms of errors in thinking. The name of the book was from a phrase "change the way you feel by changing the way you think".
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David D. Burns
David D. Burns is an American best selling author and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has also served as Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Medical School and Acting Chief of Psychiatry at the Presbyterian /...
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