CAS PS 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Behaviorism, Magical Thinking, Dialectic
10 Apr 2017
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Self talk ) if irrational, results in negative feelings . Insights often do not lead to major personality change. Inappropriate irrational beliefs : when something negative occurs self talk (automatic): I am a worthless person for not being able to ward it off or immediately get rid of it. Basic view of personality and treatment: human beings largely create their own emotional consequences, ability to understand what they are foolishly believing to cause their upsetness and to train themselves to change or eliminate their self-sabotaging beliefs. If helped, they are much more likely to change their symptom-creating beliefs. Common cognitive distortions: all or nothing thinking, you see things in black-and-white categories, ex. I"m completely off my diet! : overgeneralization, you see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat, ex. I spend a lot of time by myself. I doubt anyone likes me. : mental filter, dwelling on a single negative detail exclusively, ex.
