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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated
David D. Burns
Harper, 1999
Excellent
+ Creating a New self-image
+ This book is a must read!
+ Excellent book!
+ Feeling good by David Burns
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Doing the Right Thing: Cultivating Your Moral Intelligence
Dr. Aaron Hass
Pocket, 2002
A Practical Guide for Confronting Hard Choices
+ relevant, insightful and compassionate!
Imagine a real-life dilemma: your spouse gets diagnosed with a serious mental illness. Soon afterward your only parent develops incurable cancer. No one else is available to share caregiver duties. You can't hire assistance. What do you do? I was reading Aaron Hass's Doing the Right Thing when ...
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Getting Your Life Back: The Complete Guide to Recovery from Depression
Jesse Wright, Monica Ramirez Basco
Free Press, 2002
Very helpful and action-oriented
+ getting yuor life back: the complete guide to recovery from depresion
+ The most helpful book on depression I have ever read
+ The key to unlocking depression is in this book!
+ Most Informative Ever!
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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Delta, 1990
Healing for the Heart and Head
+ a modern classic of mindfulness literature
+ Getting used to the idea
+ A thought full way to good health
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Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters
Elie Wiesel
Simon & Schuster, 1982
A journey through Hassidism
+ My favorite book
+ More than just nostalgia...
Hassidism, its tales, legends, and masters, has always been a source of mystery and confusion. "Souls on Fire" is a journey through Hassidism. Traveling from the source and further development of this unique Jewish religious manifestation is a joy when led by the mind and sould of Elie Wiesel. ...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom
Broadway, 2002
A heartfelt reminder of the important things in life.
+ Tuesdays with Bill
+ MUST READ
+ Immortal
+ Awakening
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Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness (Plus)
Epictetus, Sharon Lebell
HarperOne, 2007
Most helpful "self-help" book I've ever encountered!
+ A beautiful spiritual book
While some reviewers might object to the "updated" terminology of Lebell's adaptation of Epictetus' philosophy, I must say that the reason this edition is so effective is largely because the "abstract", "scholarly", "dry" language that one usually encounters (with conventional translations of ...
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The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family
Harper Paperbacks, 1997
Oddly Comforting!
+ Best Simpsons Book Ever
+ Great Book for a Great Show!
+ I Do Like A Man Who Knows His Simpsons
+ As the cover says, a complete guide...
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Worry
Edward M. Md Hallowell
Ballantine Books, 1998
Help for the common man and woman
+ Useful stuff here for the worryworts of the world
+ Intelligent, Informative, Inspiring
+ Very Interesting
+ very informative book on worry
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The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius
Mark Forstater
Harper Perennial, 2001
A superb reading of a superb text
+ Wonderful Little Book
+ Not Bad
The other reviewers have thoroughly covered the content of this wonderful work so I will simply add that listening to Derek Jacobi's reading of the text is a sublime experience in itself. It's somewhat like listening to a wise Dutch uncle and Jacobi's easy conversational tone (never hectoring or ...
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press, 2006
A masterpiece of great dignity
+ A book of hope
+ This Book is a Pure and True Path to Freedom
+ "Et lux in tenebris lucet" - and the light shineth in the darkness.
+ Frankl's reflections will stay with you
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The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler
Riverhead Hardcover, 1998
Best Buddhism book for westerners and beginners
+ Courage to Say "I Don't Know"
+ Happiness - Combining East -West Perspectives
+ Powerful and elegant
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press, 2006
A masterpiece of great dignity
+ A book of hope
+ This Book is a Pure and True Path to Freedom
+ "Et lux in tenebris lucet" - and the light shineth in the darkness.
+ Frankl's reflections will stay with you
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated
David D. Burns
Harper, 1999
Excellent
+ Creating a New self-image
+ This book is a must read!
+ Excellent book!
+ Feeling good by David Burns
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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Delta, 1990
Healing for the Heart and Head
+ a modern classic of mindfulness literature
+ Getting used to the idea
+ A thought full way to good health
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