Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy, a radical new approach that will help you transform troubled, conflicted relationships into successful, happy ones.
by David D. Burns, M.D.
We all have someone we cannot get along with — whether it is a friend or colleague who complains constantly, a relentlessly critical boss, an obnoxious neighbor, a teenager who pouts and slams doors (all the while insisting she is not upset), or maybe a loving, but irritating spouse.
Burns introduced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a clinically proven, drug-free therapy that has revolutionized the treatment of clinical depression throughout the world. Now, he presents Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy, a radical new approach that will help you transform troubled, conflicted relationships into successful, happy ones.
His method is easy and surprisingly effective.
He shows how to stop pointing fingers at everyone else and start looking at yourself; how to pinpoint the exact cause of the problem with any person with whom you are not getting along; and how to solve relationship conflict almost instantly.
Based on 25 years of clinical experience and groundbreaking research on more than 1,000 individuals, Burns presents an entirely new theory of why we have so much trouble getting along with each other.
The book is filled with helpful examples and brilliant, user-friendly tools that will help you enjoy far more loving and satisfying relationships.
$13.99 — Broadway Books, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 29, Number 2, April/May 2010.
April 14, 2012
Book review