Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders - Softcover

Beck, Aaron T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452006635 ISBN 13: 9780452006638

Publisher: Plume, 1979

Synopsis

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 behaviour 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.

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Review:

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

"A book by a significant contributor to our knowledge... immensely readable, logical, and coherent... This is Beck at his best."--Psychiatry

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

About the Author:

Aaron T. Beck is widely seen as the father of cognitive therapy. Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, he is the founder of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research. He lives in Philadelphia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0452006635
• ISBN 13: 9780452006638
• Binding: Paperback