Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · October 1, 1979
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- Who it’s for
- A clear guide to how mistaken assumptions shape emotional distress—and how cognitive therapy addresses them.
- Themes
- Cognitive therapy, Emotional disorders, Automatic thoughts
- Genres
- CBT, Emotions, Stress & Anxiety
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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?
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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
Thoughts in Focus
A clear guide to how mistaken assumptions shape emotional distress—and how cognitive therapy addresses them.
Come here for
- A close look at automatic thoughts and hidden messages
- An account of cognitive therapy’s theory and practice
Expect
- Attention to sadness, anger, anxiety, phobias, and depression
- A practical lens on thinking and emotional difficulty
Where it sits
| CBT | 100% |
|---|---|
| Emotions | 27% |
| Stress & Anxiety | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- How We Think & Learn
- Mental Health
- Behavioral Psychology
- Authors
- Aaron T. Beck
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- October 1, 1979
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Cognitive therapy · Emotional disorders · Automatic thoughts
- Reading lane
- How We Think & Learn