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  • Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

  • By: Aaron T. Beck
  • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
  • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (20 ratings)

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Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

By: Aaron T. Beck
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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

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

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Must read for any psych student

Aaron Beck single-handedly changed the entire field of psychology. His insight and knowledge are paramount to our understanding of the human mind today. This book gives a comprehensive theoretical overview of the mind and how distortions cause various mental disorders. It is clearly written and very easy to follow.

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THIS IS NOT A SELF-HELP BOOK

Although the end goal of cognitive therapy is for the client to become their own therapist, you aren't gonna do that by reading this book. If you're looking for a self-help book you aren't in the right place. This is book is Aaron Beck applying his cognitive theoretical framework to emotional disorders and disseminating the research he has completed. I'm currently a masters of counseling student trying to figure out which theoretical framework fits best with my worldview. In this book, Beck does a fabulous job explaining the application of his cognitive theory to the "emotional disorders." It had been very helpful in my search.

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Absolutely the finest caliber of academic writing on CBT. Therapists would do well to read this book a couple of times in a row.

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a long medical journal review article

struggled. definitely not for everybody. read like a medical review article.
I was hoping for techniques to use cbt. should have known.

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