F*ck Feelings
Michael I. Bennett, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and his daughter Sarah, a comedy writer, built F*ck Feelings as a working clinical reference for blunt self-help. Each chapter takes a common life problem, the asshole at work, the parent who never approves of you, the lover who left, the child you cannot reach, the job you hate, and walks through what the reader actually wants, what they should accept they will never get, and what to do instead. The book is structured like a psychiatric handbook with profanity and dry humor mixed in, drawing on Bennett's decades of clinical practice in Boston. It hit the New York Times bestseller list in 2015.
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A Harvard-trained psychiatrist and his comedy-writer daughter built a profanity-laced clinical handbook for blunt self-help across forty common life problems.
The book is explicitly anti-self-help in tone but draws on Michael Bennett's decades of clinical practice. Many therapists recommend it as a corrective to over-optimistic self-help. It is more accessible than typical clinical reading.
F*ck Feelings was written by Michael I. Bennett, published in 2015 by FISCHER Taschenbuch.
F*ck Feelings is a standalone novel by Michael I. Bennett, not part of a series.
F*ck Feelings is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.