Jack Oliver - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Retraining Your Brain, Break Through Depression, Phobias, Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts (Training Guide, Self-Help, Exercises)

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My father, wife and children dedicated.

P.S. You need to be patient, to go the way of healing with maximum efficiency.

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Content

This book is the result of many years of research and clinical practice. Her appearance on the light is made possible through the efforts of many, many people - clinicians, researchers and patients. Paying tribute to the contribution of individuals, I suppose also, that in itself cognitive therapy is a reflection of the changes that have for many years taken place in the field of behavioral sciences and only took shape in the leading trend in recent years. However, we cant accurately assess the role played by the so-called "cognitive revolution in psychology" in the development of cognitive therapy.

Clinical observations, experimental and correlational studies, as well as ongoing attempts to explain the data, Contradictions of psychoanalytic theory led me to a complete rethinking of the psychopathology of depression and other neurological disorders. Finding that depressed patients do not have a need for suffering, I began to look for other explanations of their behavior that only "look" as the need for suffering. I wondered: how else can you explain their relentless self-flagellation, their steadily negative perception of reality and what seemed to be told about the presence of auto-hostility, namely their suicidal desires?

Remembering his experience of the "masochistic" dreams of depressed patients, which, in fact, was the starting point of my research, I began to look for alternative explanations for the fact that depressive dreamer constantly sees himself in the loser dream - he either loses some valuable thing, or It cant achieve some important goals, or appears defective, ugly, repulsive. Listening to how patients describe yourself and your experience, I noticed that they systematically reinterpreting the facts for the worse. These interpretations, shaped similar to the number of their dreams, made me think that depressed patients is inherent in a distorted perception of reality.

Thanks to several studies, we filled up our knowledge about how depressed patients evaluate their current expertise and its prospects. These experiments have shown that under certain conditions a series of successfully completed jobs can play a huge role in changing the patient's negative self-concept and thereby eliminate many symptoms of depression.

Cognitive therapy is constantly used in certain phases of the psychotherapeutic process in combination with other techniques. The cognitive approach to defects in the emotional sphere transforms the point of view of individuals to their own identity and problems. This type of therapy is convenient because it seamlessly blends with any psychotherapeutic approach orientation, is able to complement other methods and significantly enrich their effectiveness.

1. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Cognitive Behavior Therapy)

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy ( CBT ) - This approach is intended to change the mental images, thoughts and thinking patterns in order to help patients to overcome emotional and behavioral problems. It is based on the theory that behavior and emotions are partly due to cognition and cognitive processes, change that can be learned. Traditional methods of psychotherapy. Always recognized the important role of cognition in behavior and emotions, but cognitive behavioral therapy is different from the previous insight-oriented approaches in that it is only the material of cognition, there is a "here and now". Working with these cognitions held more systematically than in other methods of psychotherapy. It uses the principles of behavior modification to detect existing cognitions and identify those that are problematic. Behavioral techniques are used to eliminate unwanted cognitions, offers new thinking patterns and ways of thinking through issues and to support these new cognitions.

These techniques include:

a) registration of desirable and undesirable cognitions and fixing the conditions of their appearance;

b) modeling of new cognitions;

c) use of the imagination to visualize how new cognitions can be co-related with desirable behavior and emotional well-being;

g) The use of these new cognitions in practice in real situations, so that they become a common way of thinking of the patient.

Cognition, which change may be required, include separate opinions and beliefs and their systems, as well as thoughts and images.

Man organizes and uses of cognition by means of cognitive processes.

These processes include:

a) methods of evaluating and organizing information. about themselves and the environment;

b) information processing means. to fit in life and problem-solving, and c) methods of prediction and evaluation of future events.

1. History

Cognitive-behavioral therapy as an independent direction separated from the field of behavior modification and behavior therapy. Behavioral therapy 1960s. I tried to explain and treat emotional and behavioral problems by using the same laws of operant (et al.) of conditioning, which are successfully used in the study of the behavior of lower organisms, infants and those with mental retardation. However, it was found that even a very powerful external manipulation often could not change the natural behavior of the adult study. For example, in the treatment of depression can, in principle, support "happy" behaviors and punish "depressive". However, if the patient's cognitive processes include the tendency to self-incrimination or the vision of himself as a failure, the external manipulation will be ineffective.

Interest in self-control or the ability to independence from immediate rewards and punishments to achieve the objective contributed to the transition of many behaviorists from the concept of external control of behavior to theories postulating the possibility of using individual cognitive skills to solve problems in the environment. The thought process began to attach important role in determining the behavior and emotions.

Albert Bandura's monograph Principles of behavior modification ("behavior modification principles") has become an important event for many behavioral therapists who were in search of a more integrative model because it represented the theoretical interpretation of operant and classical conditioning, while stressing the importance of cognitive processes in the regulation of behavior.