Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Freeman, Arthur[Herausgeber]
• Dattilio, Frank M[Herausgeber]

Titel

Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive Therapy

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction to Cognitive Therapy -- 2. Developing Treatment Conceptualizations in Cognitive Therapy -- II. Treatment of Clinical Problems -- 3. Use of the Quality of Life Inventory in Problem Assessment and Treatment Planning for Cognitive Therapy of Depression -- 4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder -- 5. Performance Anxiety -- 6. Social Phobia -- 7. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- 8. Panic with Agoraphobia -- 9. Stress -- 10. An Adjustment Disorder -- 11. Recurrent Major Depression -- 12. Dysthymia -- 13. The Suicidal Patient -- 14. Childhood Depression -- 15. Child Sexual Abuse -- 16. Bulimia Nervosa -- 17. Obesity -- 18. Cocaine Abuse -- 19. The Older Adult -- 20. Inhibited Grief -- 21. Schizotypal Personality Disorder -- 22. Borderline Personality Disorder -- 23. Narcissistic Personality Disorder -- 24. The Schizophrenic Patient -- 25. The Patient with Multiple Problems -- 26. Working with Gay Men -- 27. Working with Gay Women -- 28. Marital Therapy -- 29. Hy
• 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 manifestations 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