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Overview
Beck, one of the founders of cognitive therapy, provides a comprehensive guide to its theory and practice.
A founder of cognitive therapy provides a comprehensive guide to its theory and practice.
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 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.