‘Feeling Good’ Author To Speak on Campus

Best-selling author and mental health scholar David D. Burns will give a free lecture at the Memorial Union Tuesday, Sept. 16 on “feeling good about yourself.”

Burns’ public lecture will be held from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Theater. His talk is in recognition of the 50th anniversary of counseling and consultation services at UW–Madison.

Burns, a psychiatry professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, is the author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, the book most frequently recommended for depressed patients by mental-health professionals in the United States. The book has sold more than 3 million copies since its 1994 publication.

In addition to his popular and scholarly writing, Burns is in great demand nationally as a workshop leader for mental-health professionals. He conducts approximately 25 training workshops a year across the country. Burns’ strategy for overcoming depression calls for a number of practical steps that avoid the use of drugs or lengthy therapy.

For more information about the lecture, contact Robert McGrath, director of Counseling and Consultation Services, at 262-5218.