CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) is a very popular method and known as a very effective way of treatment. It differs from other approaches in many ways but the most significant difference between CBT and other techniques is that it doesn't deal with your past and your child but focuses on your behavior and thinking patterns in order to identify the underling thoughts or misconceptions that lead one to behave in a way that removes him/her from their goals in life.
Albert Ellis, the founder of CBT therapy was a psychoanalyst that realized that some of his patients were not responsive of the dynamic treatment, he than turned to invent a new method. He claimed that our emotions are an outcome of the way we interpret different situations and if we will interpret them differently, we will be able to respond and react to these situation in a better way. The way we interpret things depend on previous experiences stemmed in our childhood.
Ellis, the founder of CBT, developed a method that its goal was to help the patient recognize those beliefs and misconception in order to look at them, analyze them, understand that they are not the ultimate truth and finally change them.
Ellis recognized eleven main irrational thought that people internalize since childhood: I must be accepted and loved by everybody who knows me, I must be successful in order to have a positive self esteem, it is better to ignore uncomfortable situations than dealing with them, some people are bad and that's why they treated me wrongly, it is not up to me to control my life events.
Those irrational beliefs prevent us sometimes from reacting in a good and effective manner to different situations; thus the goal of this kind of treatment to understand how they influence us in the present and gradually change them.
Albert Ellis, the founder of CBT therapy was a psychoanalyst that realized that some of his patients were not responsive of the dynamic treatment, he than turned to invent a new method. He claimed that our emotions are an outcome of the way we interpret different situations and if we will interpret them differently, we will be able to respond and react to these situation in a better way. The way we interpret things depend on previous experiences stemmed in our childhood.
Ellis, the founder of CBT, developed a method that its goal was to help the patient recognize those beliefs and misconception in order to look at them, analyze them, understand that they are not the ultimate truth and finally change them.
Ellis recognized eleven main irrational thought that people internalize since childhood: I must be accepted and loved by everybody who knows me, I must be successful in order to have a positive self esteem, it is better to ignore uncomfortable situations than dealing with them, some people are bad and that's why they treated me wrongly, it is not up to me to control my life events.
Those irrational beliefs prevent us sometimes from reacting in a good and effective manner to different situations; thus the goal of this kind of treatment to understand how they influence us in the present and gradually change them.
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