Product Description

Wendy Dryden shows in this book how negative ways of thinking can cause people to become emotionally disturbed. She then shows that by controlling the way we think we can have control of our negative emotions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #632283 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

A paradigm shift in how you see the world
Prior to reading this unusual self-help book I had always thought of my state of mind as something to be suffered nobly.

The first page of this book forces the reader to examine whether or not being depressed is the easy way out. This may not be the case for everyone but it certainly was for me (at least 75% of the problem anyway).

Dr Dryden goes on to explain how we repeat certain patterns of thought in order to deepen and prolong low mood.

The accounts where so perceptive they made me squirm with embarrassment at my self-indulgence.

The consequences involve having to rexamine many of the prejudices about the world I have held for most of my life. An uncomfortable process certainly but once you start, there's no going back.

An antidote to Utopian thinking
This is a fabulous book. It is about the joys of critical thinking about our subjective experience. An antidote to to all those books that banish critical thinking in favour of affirmations and blind optimism. You will find so much that is familiar in this book. Even if you don't recognise the exact language used to describe how we think when disturbing ourselves, you will find it difficult to disagree that absolutism and dogmatism in almost any form are untruthful and impossible to justify.

Completely baffled by this book
I don't know if this book is a joke or some bizarre reverse psychology experiment. I read through this book briefly and it tells you how to be and the benefits of being miserable, lazy, depressed and selfish! The title really sums the book up. It gives examples of how to take advantage of people, how to utilise feigning illness, how to being sad and lonely is a good thing! A pointless book that is not worth wasting money on.