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Feeling Good grew out of dissatisfaction with conventional Freudian treatment of depression. Burns’s mentor, Aaron T. Beck (considered the “father” of cognitive therapy; Albert Ellis is considered the “grandfather”), concluded that there was no empirical evidence for the success of Freudian psychoanalysis in treating depressed people. The idea that negative feelings such as depression and anxiety are triggered by thoughts or perceptions has a long history, datingContinue reading “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”