Beyond Negative Thinking: Breaking the Cycle of Depressing and Anxious Thoughts

by Joseph T. Martorano

Book Overview

An invaluable guide on how to feel better and improve behavior by recognizing and breaking patterns of negative thinking.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738206172
• ISBN13: 9780738206172
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

One of the best of an otherwise uninspiring genre

This book uses proven cogntive techniques and touching vignettes that keep you reading. It delivers on it's promise which is what a self-help book should do!

Watch Your Thoughts!

I found this book to be not only extremely helpful in breaking depressing and negative thoughts, but fascinating as well. Many of us go through our days not realizing how we sabotage ourselves just by the way we choose to think. Thinking becomes habit and pretty soon we are caught in a web of our own making. The book gives five basic techniques: 1. Listen in - Listen to your own thoughts. 2. Underlining. - finding the depressing, negative words in your thoughts. 3. Stopping. -stop that thought! 4. Switching -change the content of your inner speech 5. Reorienting - direct your thinking to a different goal. Of course, all of these techniques are a lot easier said than done and that is where the work comes in. This is not a book you just read and finish and forget about. It is something that a person must work on everyday and the authors are quick to point out that it does require lots of work to change bad habits and replace them with good ones. Though this book was written in 1989, it is timeless in it's message. I highly recommend it to anyone who is really serious about changing the way in which they think.

A book that changed my life

The situations Dr. Martorano talks about in this book made me feel like it had been written about me. It's amazing how many people there are with my exact same problems and situation. I thought it was just great. Plus, The instructions he and Dr. Kildahl gave were easy to follow and have really made a difference