I am looking for a book on cognitive thinking. I saw it in an answer on this web site . The question?

had to do with depression and what can you do about it. It sounds like THe Healthy living Handbook , or something with the last word handbook in the title. If anyone knows please write back soon,and thanks.

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well, i don't think this is it, but it is about depression and anxiety as well. it talks about cognitive theraphy and analyses the bad thinking habits of depressed and anxious sufferers.

feeling good by David D. Burns

another book is

mind over mood (forgot the author, sorry)

cognitive therapy, not cognitive thinking, I believe. The Burns book is alright in that he has numerous, not over whelming "exercises" you can choose to do, think about doing or just ponder as you wind your way through the book. Kind of clever stuff, some of it. Kind of oversimplified silliness some of it. But what isn't? This cognitive business is a way of actually doing something for yourself, checking to see if it works out for you, teaches one that one's thoughts can really profoundly effect mood. Lots of tips on how to reframe thoughts and thinking so to speak. You adopt certain techiques and over time things that work for you can become second nature. You discard stuff that just sounds like nonsense or for whatever reason is just not for you. I totally dismiss behaviorists blind spot around something called the heart. A lot of them come across like automatons, especially when their whole bag of tricks sources out of a guy like Burns or Ellis; rational emotive. Again, intriguing, useful but also kind lacking in passion and magic of the heart.
Go to a good book store or the library and check the Psychology section.
or Check out Amazon.com and type "cognitive thinking". You should find it there.
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