Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

What it is about

Aaron Beck lays out the conceptual foundations of cognitive therapy: emotional disorders are sustained partly by patterned interpretations, automatic thoughts, and deeper assumptions that shape experience. Through depression, anxiety, phobias, and other conditions, he argues for collaborative, evidence-seeking work that makes thought visible and testable. Its place here is personal: I want the argument to meet the life I am actually living.

Why I keep it

Beck, the origin of CBT. I wanted the source, not the summary.

Key ideas

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