Cognitive therapy and the emotional disorders
By: Aaron T. Beck
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Cognition Disorders; Therapy; Affective Symptoms; Cognitive therapy; Pathological Psychology
Description: "Is the emotionally disturbed person a victim of forces beyond his awareness, over which he has no control? This is the belief on which neuropsychiatry, psychoanalysis, and behavior therapy are all based. But what if this premise is wrong? What if a person's psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of himself and the world? Such a person can be helped to recognize and correct distortions in thinking that cause his emotional disturbance. Now one of the founders of cognitive therapy has written a clear, comprehensive guide to its theory and practice, highlighting such important concepts as: learning the meaning of hidden messages, listening to your automatic thoughts, the role of sadness, anger, and anxiety, understanding and overcoming phobias and depression, applying the cognitive system of therapy to specific problems" -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-348) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Common sense and beyond; title: Tapping the internal communications; title: Meaning and emotions; title: Cognitive content of the emotional disorders; title: The paradoxes of depression; title: The alarm is worse than the fire : anxiety neurosis; title: Afraid but not afraid : phobias and obsessions; title: Mind over body : psychosomatic disorders and hysteria; title: Principles of cognitive therapy; title: Techniques of cognitive therapy; title: The cognitive therapy of depression; title: The status of cognitive therapy.