The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Many research studies, as well as my own clinical experience, have confirmed that severely depressed patients who appear very "biologically" depressed with… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. — Aaron T. Beck Copy Share Image
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Oh, waaaah! It's called finding the right medication, cognitive therapy, exercise, and eating for optimum health. Remember there are people out there… — Megan Grabiec Copy Share Image
Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
“ Cognitive Therapy Instead of behavior, cognitive therapy emphasizes changing thoughts and beliefs. Cognitive therapists believe that irrational beliefs or distorted thinking… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“CBT is a much publicised and debated psychotherapeutic intervention for ME/CFS….The premise that cognitive therapy (eg. changing ‘illness beliefs’) and graded activity… — Anthony Komaroff Copy Share Image
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Feeling Good' was first published in 1980.… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
