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44- Book- Cognitive therapy & the emotional disorders
Author : Aaron T. Beck
Note : 8/10
Year: 1976 (printed 1979)
Meridian
337 pages
Very informative book on cognitive therapy and emotional disorders, it does not give enough tools to self-treat after a self-analysis.
This book seems primarily written for therapists and explains the path of the author, a former psychoanalyst who found the precepts of psychoanalysis too far from the reality in the field and how he found this new (for 1970 ) therapy.
During my reading, despite this fact I made a part of the work that should aleviate to my next cognitive therapy which should begin shortly.
Through the 12 chapters that describe the mechanisms of affective disorders (anxiety, depression, phobias and obsessions, psychosomatic disorder) and the importance of knowing the meaning given by each patient to various stimuli that cause difficulties (at various levels depending on the person) to have a proper plan of action between therapist and patient.
I have found in all the English language easy despite the jargon; I must say that my interest in the subject and an ease with English helped me and suggest that less fluent francophones consider this book in its French translation, taking into account that it dates from 1976* and since, cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy have merged into the CBT, and these therapies are constantly changing with time and according to the understanding of emotional disorders.
Nevertheless, it remains current in its approach, breaking away with older precepts which aren't always adapted to the reality of patiences, seeking
rapid improvement rather than over-analyzing for years and leaving one's wallet with the therapists ...
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