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Depression And Cognitive Therapy

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Cognitive therapy is based on the philosophy that people can learn to be their own therapist. The relationship with your therapist will be a joint session. Cognitive therapists don’t tell patients that their opinions is not accepted in a session, instead they teach them methods to discover, using their own experiences and behavioral experiments. By learning to test your thoughts through real life experiments, you can discover more balanced ways of thinking. In the end it will help them control a variety of emotions. According to Judith Beck, PhD who is the director of Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research. Cognitive therapy was developed in the 1960s as an alternative way to treat depression. During therapy session, a person learns

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