Comment by BadassFractal

As far as I can tell that's pretty much what the book Feeling Good concluded many years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeling_Good:_The_New_Mood_Ther... , except at the time it was called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It's fascinating how the book dodges mentioning meditation as much as possible, but as you read it, you realize it's essentially proposing the same exact techniques of insight, just in a more clinical terminology.