Feeling Good Together

The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work

By: David D. Burns M.D.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's Summary

We all know people who are hard to get along with. It might be your spouse, mother, neighbor, friend, or colleague. In his new book Feeling Good Together, Dr. David D. Burns describes Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy (CIT), a radically different method for developing more loving and satisfying relationships with the people you care about.

Based on 25 years of clinical experience and new, groundbreaking research involving more than 1,000 individuals, Feeling Good Together is filled with helpful examples and tools, such as the Relationship Satisfaction Test, the Blame Cost-Benefit Analysis, the Relationship Journal, Five Secrets of Effective Communication, the Intimacy Exercise, and more. Using these techniques, Dr. Burns shows you how to resolve virtually any kind of relationship conflict almost instantly.

©2008 David D. Burns, M.D. (P)2008 Tantor

Useful book, supplementary material unavailable

Like its predecessor, "Feeling Good," this book goes beyond fluffy pop psychology. It gives you some concrete cognitive behavioral therapy tools for improving your relationships.

That said, I am very displeased that it is labeled "unabridged," but refers to supplementary content, such as a questionnaire for evaluating your satisfaction in a relationship, that is apparently unavailable. To me, the book is less valuable without access to this content, hence the three-star rating.

Best yet for communications Skills

I like this book/audio the best so far. Very good advice through out, now if I can just put it into action. The supplemental material can be found here.
http://www.tantor.com/Illust_extra.asp?Product=0820_FeelingGood&num=1

powerful tools

Dr Burns gives you tools to communicate with people that you've built resentment with etc. A great way to change frustrating problems into solution.

Practice and these techniques work!

Everyone one should read this book. Anyone in any kind of relationship, if you really care about the relationship then this book is a must read

Just finished listening and about to start the book again

Have already put into practice the advice shared in this incredible read. Super applicable! I've been in a bit of a slump emotionally and am now realizing the importance of how you frame things and share your emotions in conversation. I had already been doing this, but not with the pazaz found here! Gonna consume it over and over again until it becomes second nature. Thank you for investing this knowledge into my life.

WE NEED MORE!

This book has a lot of real life exemplas that we all go true on regular basis.
I wish Dr. Burns would have all his other best selling books available in audio as well.
Can't wait!
Thanks

review of book

there were great ideas and help with words I didn't know how to say things and ideas about my behavior I wouldn't have recognized otherwise. I didn't enjoy at all the bad language. I am not happy to try to listen to a book that would help me but has language that is just what I don't want put in my brain. Seems the same idea can be put across without the use of bad language.

Excellent resource

Full of fantastic examples and practice opportunities. Easy to follow, engaging and practical. Will be helpful for all aspects of life involving interpersonal communication.

Repetitive but very informative

I found this book very informative until I reached around chapter 20. after that it is mostly just exercises and practicing that ask you to use pen and paper to make lists and complete tasks. even practice with partners. It gives a nice breakdown of how different things you say can effect the outcome of a conversation and how you can reach the conclusions you want in an argument and reduce tension while helping you create a closer bond in your relationships.

Some good insights about relationships.

Although I enjoyed parts of the book I found very annoying the athours unnecessary clasification of feelings and their responses by the use of numbers and letters. It made me feel as if I was in a math class, instead of listening to a book about feelings.

Arturo Mallmann