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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

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Common Sense and Beyond(p. 6)
• 2 Tapping the Internal Communications(p. 24)
• 3 Meaning and Emotions(p. 47)
• 4 Cognitive Content of the Emotional Disorders(p. 76)
• 5 The Paradoxes of Depression(p. 102)
• 6 The Alarm Is Worse Than the Fire: Anxiety Neurosis(p. 132)
• 7 Afraid But Not Afraid: Phobias and Obsessions(p. 156)
• 8 Mind over Body: Psychosomatic Disorders and Hysteria(p. 186)
• 9 Principles of Cognitive Therapy(p. 213)
• 10 Techniques of Cognitive Therapy(p. 233)
• 11 The Cognitive Therapy of Depression(p. 263)
• 12 The Status of Cognitive Therapy(p. 306)
• References(p. 339)
• Name Index(p. 349)
• Subject Index(p. 353)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

A native of Rhode Island, Aaron Beck had an early interest in psychology. After graduating from Brown University, he embarked on a career in medicine at Yale University with the intention of specializing in psychiatry. Dissatisfied with classical psychoanalysis, he turned to modified psychoanalytic approaches and was particularly influenced by ego psychology advanced by Rapaport.

Ego psychology directed his interest in cognition, and over time Beck abandoned the psychoanalytic framework and formulated his own cognitive theory-behavior therapy for patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders. He developed numerous measurement scales, including the Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, and the Self-Concept Test, which are widely used as diagnostic and research tools in the field.

Beck continues to teach, consult, and write about the use of cognitive therapy in treating emotional disorders and other problems.

(Bowker Author Biography)