Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

by Beck, Aaron T.

• ISBN13: 9780452005129
• ISBN10: 0452005124
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Aaron T. Beck is Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

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