Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

by Aaron T. Beck
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

by Aaron T. Beck

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Overview

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

“A book by a significant contributor to our knowledge… immensely readable, logical, and coherent… This is Beck at his best.”—Psychiatry

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101659885
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/01/1979
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 853,867
File size: 440 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Aaron T. Beck received his M.D. degree from the Yale University School of Medicine and was certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Beck is a Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, a member of the visiting staff of the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and consultant to the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital.

Table of Contents

Introduction1
1Common Sense and Beyond6
2Tapping the Internal Communications24
3Meaning and Emotions47
4Cognitive Content of the Emotional Disorders76
5The Paradoxes of Depression102
6The Alarm Is Worse Than the Fire: Anxiety Neurosis132
7Afraid But Not Afraid: Phobias and Obsessions156
8Mind over Body: Psychosomatic Disorders and Hysteria186
9Principles of Cognitive Therapy213
10Techniques of Cognitive Therapy233
11The Cognitive Therapy of Depression263
12The Status of Cognitive Therapy306
References339
Name Index349
Subject Index353
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