Product Description
The simple, untold truth about anxiety and depression is that they are habits of insecurity—and, like all habits, they can be broken. In this new edition of the highly successful Self-Coaching, Dr. Joseph Luciani shows you how to change your way of thinking and develop a healthy, adaptive way of living through his proven Self-Talk strategy for coaching yourself back to health.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 79 reviews)

Changed what I had believed by Dale E. Faiello

4 Stars
April 19, 2009
I always thought feelings come first, then thoughts. After reading this book, I learned that thoughts come before feelings. Past insecurity along with habit continues the negative, untrue thinking process. Understanding this, you can change how you think, which affects how you feel. There are questions in the book to find out your personality type. This book is similar to the "Feeling Good" by David Burns, philosophy, but worth reading.

Wonderful Book by Booklady

5 Stars
January 18, 2009
My best friend has been very depressed for a long time. I saw this book one night at the mall and picked it up for her. I had completely forgotten about it, when last night she called to thank me (and Self-Coaching) for changing her life. Just wanted to let people know how powerful this book is

Thank you Dr. Luciani !! by V. Torre

5 Stars
January 18, 2009
Thank you Dr. Luciani....you have removed any doubt I once felt about the effectiveness of "self-help" books. After following a friend's recommendation, I purchased your book, SELF-COACHING: THE POWERFUL PROGRAM TO BEAT ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION. To my immense relief, your program provided the answers and insights into feelings that I thought could never be overcome. I highly recommend this excellent book!!

Some good advice, not sensitive. by L. Clark (Boston, MA)

2 Stars
January 16, 2009
This is the first Amazon review I have been inspired to write. While some of the exercises in this book are helpful, and the author's general idea is fairly accurate and well-intended, the lump sum of this book, I do not feel, is something that will resonate particularly well for an actually depressed person. The idea the depression is "self-generated" is a loaded statement from the beginning, since depressives are so inclined to blame themselves from the get-go. That isn't to say that negative thinking patterns don't perpetuate depression, because they do. But I very strongly feel this book grossly oversimplifies, and completely glosses over the nuances and sensitivities of the actual REAL LIFE people who might be reading this book. An obvious road-block is that depressed people are probably too tired to get up and "coach" themselves -- AKA, get up and yell at themselves to "get motivated", as the author suggests. The last thing people with depression should here is "just get it together" or "just get up and do it." Yes, getting better takes work, but I don't think this book is the greatest place to start. Another alarm bell is the fact that the book is praised on the back cover by Dr. Laura Schlessinger, a crazy right-wing "therapist" with a terrible and generally insensitive talk-show. Also, at some point in this book all the labels he makes up for specific personality types get so irritating and over-the-top, I felt like I couldn't keep track of what he was even talking about. Also, indentifying the depressive or anxiety-ridden character as the "insecure child" I feel also pushes in the direction of self-blame -- as if it is somehow our own fault for not growing out of our insecurities. He's right to identify depression and anxiety as something outside the natural self, but he's sort of missing the mark. Again, oversimplification, and insensitivity. The book I would recommend as an alternative, both brilliant, practical, and sensitive, is "Undoing Depression" by Richard O'Connor. Thanks.

Broken Record. by Jason P. Carney (western ny)

1 Stars
November 23, 2008
this book is pretty much all filler. the "Dr" that wrote it seems to like to repeat things over and over. the techniques are garbage... period. the book is basically about talking to yourself repeatedly till you forget your problems. what is that? the book should be called "Sweep your problems under a rug". got news for ya folks... life sucks sometimes and the last thing ya wanna do is dismiss problems. you gotta face them head on and just deal with the pain... it WILL pass, and if you cant and you become suicidal... books are not going to help, real doctors will.

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