Comprehensive casebook of cognitive therapy
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Comprehensive casebook of cognitive therapy
Plenum Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is the golden age of cognitive therapy. Its popularity among society and the professional community is growing by leaps and bounds. What is it and what are its limits? What is the fundamental nature of cognitive therapy? It is, to my way of thinking, simple but profound. To understand it, it is useful to think back to the history of behavior therapy, to the basic development made by Joseph Wolpe. In the 1950s, Wolpe astounded the therapeutic world and infuriated his colleagues by finding a simple cure for phobias. The psychoanalytic establishment held that phobias-irrational and intense fear of certain objects, such as cats-were just surface manifesta tions of deeper, underlying disorders. The psychoanalysts said their source was the buried fear in male children of castration by the father in retaliation for the son's lust for his mother. For females, this fear is directed toward the opposite sex parent. The biomedical theorists, on the other hand, claimed that some as yet undiscovered disorder in brain chemistry must be the underlying problem. Both groups insisted that to treat only the patient's fear of cats would do no more good than it would to put rouge over measles. Wolpe, however, reasoned that irrational fear of something isn't just a symptom of a phobia; it is the whole phobia.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Introduction to Cognitive Therapy
- F.M. Dattilio, A. Freeman. Developing Treatment Conceptualizations
- A. Freeman. Treatment of Clinical Problems: Performance Anxiety
- P. Salmon. Social Phobia
- R. Becker. Major Depression, Recurrent
- M.J. Yates. Dysthymia
- A. Freeman. Child Sexual Abuse
- A.T. Beck, et al. Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- R.L. Greenberg. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- D. Bux. Combined Cognitive Therapy and Pharmacotherapy of Depression
- J.H. Wright. Extented Case Studies: Long-Term Treatment of Schizophrenia
- C. Perris et al. Family Treatment with an Acting Out Adolescent
- Y. Teichman. The Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder
- C.G. Fine. Treatment of Chronic Pain
- B.N. Eimer. Epilogue: Cognitive Therapy in the Year 2000
- A. Freeman, F.M. Dattilio. 21 additional articles. Index.
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