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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reason Is Next to Godliness | |
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| Philosophers Who Hang Out Their Shingles | |
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| What to Expect from This Book | |
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| Aristotle's Aphrodisiac: Moderation Satisfies | |
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| Your Lesson Plan: A Brief Overview | |
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| Reason Is Drug-Free, Internal Medicine! | |
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| How You May Be Unknowingly Tormenting Yourself, and What You Can Do to Feel Better | |
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| Reasoning in Everyday Life | |
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| Is There a Philosopher in the House? | |
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| How You Deduce Your Actions from Premises | |
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| The Tragic Case of Larry | |
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| Rules, Reports, and Refutations | |
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| Antidotes and Antidotal Reasoning | |
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| What Goes On in an Emotional Crisis | |
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| Hiding Out in the Bedroom: The Case of Jason | |
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| The Objects of Your Emotions | |
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| Your Bodily Feelings | |
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| Replaying Your Bodily Feelings | |
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| Emotional Reasoning | |
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| A Closer Look at Jason's Emotional Reasoning | |
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| The Emotion Loop | |
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| How to Get Control of Your Emotions | |
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| A Trial of Nerves: The Case of Harry | |
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| Using Antidotal Reasoning to Control Your Emotions | |
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| Behaving Yourself | |
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| Reframing Your Situation | |
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| Drug Therapy | |
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| How to Deal with Conflict between Emotion and Intellect | |
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| An Emotionally Torn Mom: The Case of Myra | |
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| Cognitive Dissonance | |
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| Fighting Cognitive Dissonance with Your Strongest Antidote | |
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| Flexing Your Willpower Muscle | |
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| Some Virulent Strains of Thinking | |
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| Rules You May Be Using to Seriously Disturb Yourself | |
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| What's a Fallacy? | |
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| Some Very Virulent Fallacies of Emotion | |
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| Demanding Perfection | |
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| Awfulizing | |
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| Terrificizing | |
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| I-Can't-Stand-It-Itis | |
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| Damnation | |
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| I Just Can't Help This Feeling | |
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| Thou Shalt Upset Yourself | |
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| Rules That May Be Impeding the Quality of Your Interpersonal Relations | |
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| The-World-Revolves-Around-Me Thinking | |
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| Blackmailing | |
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| Making a Stink | |
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| Pity Mongering | |
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| Beating Around the Bush | |
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| Poisoning the Well | |
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| Getting Even | |
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| Jumping on the Bandwagon | |
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| Reports That May Be behind Your Self-Destructive Emotions and Actions | |
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| Overgeneralizing | |
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| Black-or-White Thinking | |
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| Magnifying Risks | |
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| Wishful Thinking | |
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| Concocting Explanations | |
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| Could-a/Would-a/Should-a Thinking | |
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| Personifying | |
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| How to Identify and Refute Your Faulty Thinking, and Find Antidotes to It | |
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| How to Formulate and Check Your Emotional Reasoning | |
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| Identifying Your Conclusion | |
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| Filing Your Report | |
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| Finding Your Assumed Rule | |
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| Refuting and Finding Antidotes to Your Unrealistic Premises | |
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| How to Read between the Emotional Lines | |
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| Staging a Practice Session | |
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| Checking Out the Reasoning behind Your Actions | |
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| Fallacy Syndromes | |
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| How to Refute Your Faulty Thinking | |
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| Checking for Counterexamples | |
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| Checking for Evidence | |
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| Checking for Self-Defeating Consequences | |
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| Checking for Double Standards | |
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| Refuting Faulty Thinking and Finding Antidotes | |
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| How to Find Antidotes to Your Faulty Thinking | |
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| Antidotal Shoulds and Shouldn'ts: Some Hot Tips | |
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| How Refutation Can Help You Find Antidotes | |
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| Putting Your Antidotes to Work | |
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| Fallacies of Emotion: Refutations and Antidotes | |
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| Fallacies of Action: Refutations and Antidotes | |
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| Fallacies of Reporting: Refutations and Antidotes | |
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| How Antidotes Can Work Together | |
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| How to Set Yourself Free: Antidotes to an Oppressive Upbringing | |
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| Two Willing Slaves: The Case of Anne and Bob | |
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| Autonomy | |
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| Socialization | |
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| The Self-Evidence Fallacy | |
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| Social Conformity | |
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| Mind-Sets and Stereotyping | |
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| Feeling Free versus Being Free | |
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| Zeroing In on Some Troublesome Emotions | |
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| How to Control Your Anger | |
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| A Love Consumed by Flames: The Case of Peter and Fran | |
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| The Getting-Even Syndrome | |
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| The Grudge Syndrome | |
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| A Case of Explosive Rage | |
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| The Short-Fuse Syndrome | |
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| Rational Anger | |
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| How to Cope with Your Anxiety | |
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| The Search for Meaning: A Case of Confronting Your Own Mortality | |
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| Defining Your Own Meanings of Life | |
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| A Sexual Midlife Crisis: Desiring Younger Women | |
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| The Woman Who Threw Out the Knives: A Case of Obsessive-Compulsiveness | |
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| The Slippery Slope Syndrome | |
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| Damning Self-Doubts | |
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| Afraid of the Dark: A Case of a Phobic Client | |
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| The Out-of-Control Panic Syndrome | |
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| The Nervous Nurse: A Case of Job-Related Anxiety | |
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| The Control-to-Get-Approval Syndrome | |
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| Overcoming Depression | |
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| The Death of My Beloved Father: How I Grieved Eight Years Later | |
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| The Dutiful Mourner | |
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| A Suicidal, Sexually Abused Woman | |
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| The Guilt Trip Syndrome | |
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| A Suicidal Woman with Lou Gehrig's Disease | |
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| More Than One Fish in the Sea: A Woman Going through Divorce | |
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| The Halo Syndrome | |
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| Working on Your Happiness | |
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| Beware Faulty Thinking | |
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| Aristotle's Antidote | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |