Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Therapy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

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Exam: tuesday april 19th, 2016, 9am 12pm. Recall: hitting the crux of a problem the stage of resistance. Ellis and beck: thought patterns that one has are the cause of the problems. Here are now rather than the past: what you are currently thinking about. Very directive: cognitive-behavioral: change behaviours and change thoughts to cure. Abnormal behaviour result from fault and irrational thinking: cannot do much because you are thinking irrationally. Replace irrational thoughts with rational thoughts and behavioral problems will disappear. Irrational thoughts: people make unrealistic demands on themselves and others, e. g. It is necessary for an adult to be loved and approved by almost everyone for virtually everything: e. g. Talking self out of something or talking self into something that isn"t true. A fear evoking thought is regarded as form of behaviors, the response of saying the illogical sentence to oneself. The task is to help patient see the irrationality in his/her belief system.