Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression (Table of Contents)

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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?
  • 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