Aaron Beck's Psychodynamic Case Study

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Psychology undergoes a cognitive revolution in the 1970s, and it led to a greater interest in the meaning and significance of cognitive processes to therapy (Grant, 2010). The increasing interest in cognition resulted in the development of various cognitive behavioral therapies (Eifert & Plaud, 1993; Grant, 2010). Aaron Beck was evidently described the theoretical structure and a fundamental method for CBT in a series of seminal papers published in the 1960s and after that it was elaborated in a management manual for depression (Eifert et al., 1993; Eifert & Plaud, 1993). CBT has become a widely used psychotherapy for major mental disorders, and since it is an action-oriented treatment approach. During the management of depression and anxiety