Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive Therapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Cognitive Therapy

      • Frank M. Dattilio, Arthur Freeman

      Pages 3-11

   3. The Development of Treatment Conceptualizations in Cognitive Therapy

      • Arthur Freeman

      Pages 13-23

3. Treatment of Clinical Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Use of the Quality of Life Inventory in Problem Assessment and Treatment Planning for Cognitive Therapy of Depression

      • Michael B. Frisch

      Pages 27-52

   3. Generalized Anxiety Disorder

      • Ellen Costello, Thomas D. Borkovec

      Pages 53-60

   4. Performance Anxiety

      • Paul Salmon

      Pages 61-69

   5. Social Phobia

      • Robert Becker

      Pages 71-77

   6. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

      • Constance V. Dancu, Edna B. Foa

      Pages 79-88

   7. Panic with Agoraphobia

      • Frank M. Dattilio, Robert J. Berchick

      Pages 89-98

   8. Stress

      • Adrian Wells

      Pages 99-106

   9. An Adjustment Disorder

      • Mark Gilson

      Pages 107-116

   10. Recurrent Major Depression

       • M. Jane Yates

       Pages 117-128

   11. Dysthymia

       • Arthur Freeman

       Pages 129-138

   12. The Suicidal Patient

       • Dennis Greenberger

       Pages 139-146

   13. Childhood Depression

       • Mark A. Reinecke

       Pages 147-158

   14. Child Sexual Abuse

       • Esther Deblinger

       Pages 159-167

   15. Bulimia Nervosa

       • David M. Garner

       Pages 169-176

   16. Obesity

       • Andrea Karfgin, David Roth

       Pages 177-184

This is the golden age of cognitive therapy. Its popularity among society and the professional community is growing by leaps and bounds. What is it and what are its limits? What is the fundamental nature of cognitive therapy? It is, to my way of thinking, simple but profound. To understand it, it is useful to think back to the history of behavior therapy, to the basic development made by Joseph Wolpe. In the 1950s, Wolpe astounded the therapeutic world and infuriated his colleagues by finding a simple cure for phobias. The psychoanalytic establishment held that phobias-irrational and intense fear of certain objects, such as cats-were just surface manifesta­ tions of deeper, underlying disorders. The psychoanalysts said their source was the buried fear in male children of castration by the father in retaliation for the son's lust for his mother. For females, this fear is directed toward the opposite sex parent. The biomedical theorists, on the other hand, claimed that some as yet undiscovered disorder in brain chemistry must be the underlying problem. Both groups insisted that to treat only the patient's fear of cats would do no more good than it would to put rouge over measles. Wolpe, however, reasoned that irrational fear of something isn't just a symptom of a phobia; it is the whole phobia.

• Depression
• Dysthymia
• emotion
• pharmacotherapy
• therapy

• Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Camden, USA

  Arthur Freeman

• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

  Frank M. Dattilio

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