Title: Disappointed
Product review: I really needed Burns' therapy to be effective, so I read it, tried to take it to heart, and did the exercises diligently. Now, I just feel silly for having done the exercises. I find the attempts to respond to distorted thoughts within Burns' therapeutic framework even more unnatural and distorted than the original thoughts themselves.What was effective was applying these techniques under the guidance of a CBT therapist. But,once the therapy ended, so did the benefits. For me it all comes down to the notion that if you are looking for argument and dialectic that satisfies at a deeper level, then this "quick fix" therapy is not the right one for you.An additional note: Burns' writing does not appeal to the imagination or the intellect. In the interest of achieving universal clarity, he seems to dumb everything down.
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