The Feeling Good Handbook is a book written by David D. Burns

David D. Burns

David D. Burns is an adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the best-selling book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Burns popularized cognitive behavioral therapy when his book became a...

, M.D. and originally published in 1989. It introduces principles of cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes.It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems.Cognitive psychology differs from previous psychological approaches in two key ways....

 which can be applied in efforts to change a person's mood. It covers many aspects of communication skills and cognitive distortions

Cognitive distortion

Cognitive distortions are exaggerated and irrational thoughts identified in cognitive therapy and its variants, which in theory perpetuate certain psychological disorders. The theory of cognitive distortions was first proposed by Aaron T. Beck. Eliminating these distortions and negative thoughts is...

. The name of the book was from a phrase "change the way you feel by changing the way you think".

A revised edition was published in 1999 (ISBN 978-0-452-28132-5).

See also

• Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
  Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
  Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy is a book written by David D. Burns, first published in 1980, that popularized cognitive behavioral therapy ....
  
  (preceding book by Burns)