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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive-behavioural therapy, or CBT for short, combines two very effective kinds of psychotherapy - cognitive therapy and behaviour therapy.
Behaviour therapy helps you break the connections between troublesome situations and your habitual reactions to them. ...
Cognitive therapy teaches you how certain thinking patterns are causing your symptoms - by giving you a distorted picture of whats going on in your life, and making you feel anxious, depressed or angry for no good reason, or provoking you into ill-chosen actions.
When combined into CBT, behaviour therapy and cognitive therapy provide you with very powerful tools for stopping your symptoms and getting your life on a more satisfying track.
The cognitive side of CBT
Cognitive therapy is effective with a wide range of problems, including very complex and challenging life situations. ... Challenging, and at times changing, ones doubtful interpretation of events is much of the cognitive work of CBT. ... Much, though not all, of behaviour therapy derives from Pavlovs demonstration that events occurring closely together in time are likely to be stored in the brain in a sort of mental package. ... Or, right in the office, to enact (rather than just talk about) an interpersonal or internal conflict, in the manner of Gestalt therapy "chair work" or psychochodrama.
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