Customer Reviews
Debra in London, UK - By: , 26 Jul 2001 
The is a brilliant book. It section covers extensively--- anaiety & worry, depression, guilt, anger & hostility, love problems, shame & embarassment, self decipline & finallly staying emotionallly heathy. It continuallly talks about RET (Rational Emotive Theory) which is basicallly involves chalenging your irrational throughts with more sensible & realistic rational throughts. EG with depression your chalenge your self pity or self negative thoughts with more realistic & contractive thought. A brilliant read as it helps you to look at the way you think about things & to replace it with a better way ot thinking. I would also recommend "How to be your own Best Friend" by Paul Hauck.
A good general-purpose introduction to REBT - By: , 14 Jul 2000 
As a rational-emotive therapist, working in the National Health Service, I often have to give my clients an introduction to the overalll philosophy. I have taken to recommending this book, as it is clear, wide-ranging & inexpensive. The first chapter gives the basic ideas, then there are seven chapters on particular emotional problems - anger & hostility, depression, guilt, anxiety & worry & so on. Clients can thus read just the parts that apply to them - which is very useful! The summaries at the end of each chapter are another useful feature.
My main reservation is that, while some readers are swept away & love the style, others are turned off by it, finding it too repetitive, or dense, or technical. Nevertheless, I give this four stars for being the best book for the purpose. If you want to recommend this to your clients (or get it for yourself!) you can always supplement it with a more detailed treatment of the area of interest - once again, look for the names of Windy Dryden or Paul Hauck & you won't go far wrong.
