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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel G. Amen
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  164 reviews
Sales Rank: 152
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0812929985
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89
EAN: 9780812929980
ASIN: 0812929985
Publication Date: December 31, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
In this age of do-it-yourself health care (heck, if the doctor only sees you for 10 minutes each visit, what other options are there?), Change Your Brain, Change Your Life fits in perfectly. Filled with "brain prescriptions" (among them cognitive exercises and nutritional advice) that are geared toward readers who've experienced anxiety, depression, impulsiveness, excessive anger or worry, and obsessive behavior, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life milks the mind-body connection for all it's worth. Written by a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has also authored a book on attention deficit disorder, Change Your Brain contains dozens of brain scans of patients with various neurological problems, from caffeine, nicotine, and heroin addiction to manic-depression to epilepsy. These scans, often showing large gaps in neurological activity or areas of extreme overactivity, are downright frightening to look at, and Dr. Amen should know better than to resort to such scare tactics. But he should also be commended for advocating natural remedies, including deep breathing, guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and biofeedback for treating disorders that are so frequently dealt with by prescription only.
Product Description
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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 Great cd January 6, 2009
This is a CD that everyone should own. A lot of good infomation that will make you think. I saw the author on our local PBS station and was impressed.
a two star review of a four star book January 6, 2009
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.
Interesting December 31, 2008
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.
 Worth the quick read December 30, 2008
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.
 one purpose: to trick people in December 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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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