Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression

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"Conquering Depression, Enjoying Life"

"An Integrated Cognitive Theory Of Depression"

Acknowledgments

Introduction

How to Read this Book

Abstract

Part I: Why do People Get Depressed?

The Casual Basis of the New Happiness Formula

Chapter 1

The Nature of the Trouble and the Forms of Help

Chapter 2

What is Depression? How Does it Feel to be Depressed?

Chapter 3

Negative Self-Comparisons, Combined with a Helpless Feeling, Are the Proximate Cause of Depression

Chapter 4

The Mechanisms That Make a Depressive

Chapter 5

The Hand of the Past in Depression

Chapter 6

The Creation and Collapse of Values

Chapter 7

And the Finger of the Day

Chapter 8

What Are Your Dimensions?

Chapter 9

The Rewards of Depression

Part II

Using the New Happiness Formula to Cure Depression

Chapter 10

Introducing Self-Comparisons Cognitive Therapy

Chapter 11

Planning and Executing a Strategy Against Your Depression

Chapter 12

Improving Your Numerator

Chapter 13

Sweetening Your Denominator

Chapter 14

Change Your Dimensions

Chapter 15

The Sound of A Numerator Clapping

Chapter 16

Religious Conversion Can Cure Depression

Chapter 17

Ways To Stop Feeling Helpless And Hopeless

Chapter 18

Values Therapy: A New Systematic Approach for Tough Cases

Chapter 19

Values Therapy and Religious Despair

Chapter 20

Summing Up

Epilogue

"A Brief Manual of Ways to Overcome Depression"

Appendix A

Background Information for Researchers and Practitioners

Appendix B

Relationship of Self-Comparisons Analysis to Other Theory

Appendix C

Schematic Diagram of the Causation of Depression

Appendix D

Tests of the Efficacy of Therapy

References

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