Term
Cognitive therapy
A method of psychotherapy created by Aaron Beck in the 1960s: a person learns to notice their automatic gloomy thoughts, find the distortions in them and replace them with more accurate ones.
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, Jonathan Haidt
Explained in
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, Jonathan Haidt
- Feeling Good, David Burns
An approach that looks for the source of distressing feelings in a person’s thoughts and teaches them to notice and test those thoughts. Aaron Beck developed it in the 1960s and 1970s.
- The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Andrew Solomon
A form of psychotherapy that works with habitual thoughts and with the ways of interpreting what happens. In the book, participants of Jeanne Miranda's programme received it in groups.