Cognitive behavioural therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is now hugely popular, and as a self-help technique that has helped millions of people in the UK alone, and as an NHS-funded treatment for illnesses like depression. Teach Yourself: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy was one of the first and most successful books on CBT. This new edition shows how CBT techniques, which focus on using altered patterns of thinking to achieve goals and overcome problems, can make a major difference to your mentality. The first half of the book explains the background to CBT, what it is, and how to use it. The second half of the book gives examples of how you can use CBT to deal with specific issues, such as helping to overcome depression and anxiety, and boosting your mindfulness, resilience, assertiveness and self-esteem.
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- Feeling Good by David Burns is a very good book. I've heard of studies that have shown it just as effective as medication for depression. The second chapter "Do Nothingness" has a chapter on procrastination specifically too.
Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology also includes a good chapter on CBT. The book also includes other findings/techniques in psychology that can help improve mood, motivation, relationships, etc. It also starts out by smacking down the Law of Attraction, which isn't really effective - it's more like an emotional pyramid scheme.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Teach Yourself by Christine Wilding contains some good information too.
Outside of CBT, Man's Search for Meaning, which defines logotherapy, is a damn useful book. Tim LeBon's book also includes information on this.
- >all CBT books on her bookshelf is that CBT in fact doesn't change anything at all. You will still have symptoms (depression, anxiety, etc.) after CBT, but the goal of CBT is to help you manage those symptoms and live a meaningful life despite those symptoms
You're describing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, not CBT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_ther...
>psychologists use therapy, and the reduction/elimination of symptoms is not necessarily their primary measure of success
Aaron T. Beck invented both CBT and the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression and anxiety symptoms (the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories). CBT was the first psychotherapy to a) explicitly make the reduction of symptoms the primary goal and b) measure the success of therapy using standardised questionnaires to quantify symptomatic reduction. Using a repeatable psychotherapeutic model to measurably reduce the symptoms of psychiatric illness is pretty much the raison d'etre of CBT. Beck's work is by no means immune from the "eureka" anecdote of a patient suddenly entering remission thanks to the acute insights of $theoreticalModel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
>found that most results are things like "CBT for Dummies" and "Teach yourself CBT in 7 weeks". These are not books for doctors, but books for laymen that are merely self-help books with a veneer of science/therapy to help the book sell. Who knows what sort of crap is in these books.
Both CBT for Dummies and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Teach Yourself were written by qualified and accredited psychotherapists.
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