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The Code Shop - Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
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List Price: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89
EAN: 9780812929980
ISBN: 0812929985
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1999-12-31
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: 1999-12-31
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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Summary: a two star review of a four star book
Comment: I usually put forth a pretty decent effort when I bother to write a review, but I'm just going to be honest and warn you ahead of time that this is will be a marginal critique.
To begin with, while I have actually read the book through twice, complete with underlining and marking important items, I have forgotten nearly everything I read. That may speak as much to the book as to me- it may have been better as a little less of an ambitious work, especially if the reader is meant to follow through with any of it.
As self-help books go it is interesting, and seems to have some pretty good (if not revolutionary) ideas. Get rid of automatic negative thoughts, that sort of thing. Most of the ideas are easier said than done, and it's probably the rare person who is going to undo twenty, thirty, or forty years of habituation (not to mention hundreds of generations of genetics) and create a new way of living life. I tend to fall into default patterns, as do most people, and unless the reverse course has some kind of fairly immediate benefit/reward for behavior modification the behavior isn't going to modify much. Again, this seems to me the book's weakness, but if you are smart enough to pull out the handful of things that really seem to apply to you and ignore the rest, you can probably derive some benefit. I wasn't that smart, and it's only after wading through it two times that I realized that was the wise way to use the book. I will probably get back to it one of these days and see what jumps out at me, but it is an intimidating thought.
Like most self-help books, it is at best as good as the reader, and the average reader who is desperate enough to dive into a tome like this probably has more than one issue, and those issues have probably found a pretty good home and don't want to be messed with. It's a bit of a catch-22 in that if you can practice this stuff you probably don't need it, and if you need it you probably are going to find it hard to practice. Again, my advice is to pick out two or three key chapters and concentrate and them and don't try everything at once.
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Summary: Interesting
Comment: It's a prescription drug culture. Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen tries to help people through meditation not medication. Other remedies he suggests are self-hypnosis and biofeedback, herbal remedies and dietary supplements among others. The book will give the reader many insights into the depths of the human brain. Don't be afraid trust in God where there life there's hope.
By the way, I see from reading the reviews on this site some people have recommend my book, "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone," and again I just want them to know how much I appreciate their recommendation, especially at such a excellent site. I wrote this book out of love and for the glory of God and Jesus, not for my own fame or fortune. I welcome people to read my book, I'm sure you'll find this non-fiction account of a loving God just as and inspiring.
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Summary: Worth the quick read
Comment: I know something is going on in my brain due to migraines and other symptons. It is a good book to begin asking questions but not really to treat yourself- whereas after the PBS program I had some ideas to experiment with. I recognized a family member in one of the cases, so it filled me with compassion as well.
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Summary: one purpose: to trick people in
Comment: the purpose of this book is to trick gullible desperate uninformed people into visiting one of the amen clinics where they will get ripped off shamelessly. the book offers no practical solutions to "changing one's brain". the author talks about scanning people's brains in his extremely expensive clinic and indirectly claims that visiting other psychiatrists is not quite as effective because they don't actually look at your brain, like Amen does, therefore, they can't treat properly.
He doesn't disclose, however, how many dissatisfied patients he had, how often his scans had proven to be ineffective, and how much his treatment actually costs on average.
If you have no formal medical education and are desperate for an effective treatment (which is 99% of the readers), this book will brainwash you with its false science and you might even find yourself on your way to Amen clinic.
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Summary: Nothing life changing
Comment: Got this for my husband. He just "had" to have it after watching a PBS special. He enjoyed the book, and found the brain scans pretty fascinating. The best thing he got out of it is figuring out that he probably has ADD. This is not new news around here.
He finished the book, then moved on.
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BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK
In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's surprising--and effective--"brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life:
To Quell Anxiety and Panic:
 ¸ Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil
To Fight Depression:
 ¸ Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts)
To Curb Anger:
 ¸ Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage
To Conquer Impulsiveness and Learn to Focus:
 ¸ Develop total focus with the "One-Page Miracle"
To Stop Obsessive Worrying:
 ¸ Follow the "get unstuck" writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises
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