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Love Is Never Enough:
How Couples Can Overcome Misunderstandings, Resolve Conflicts, and Solve Relationship Problems Through Cognitive Therapy
by Aaron T. Beck
In this book, Dr. Beck analyzes the actual dialogue of troubled couples to highlight common problems in marriage - the power of negative thinking, disillusionment, rigid rules and expectations, and miscommunication.
Prisoners of Hate
The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence
by Aaron T. Beck
Noted as the founder of cognitive psychotherapy, Beck here applies his work to greater social problems, from domestic violence to bigotry, crime, and war. Focusing on involuntary and usually unnoticed thought patterns, Beck's therapy emphasizes relearning.
From Library Journal
In Cognitive Theory of Substance Abuse, Beck and his colleagues...help us to understand the way the addicts' subjective interpretations of intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli lead to addictive behavior. They offer a carefully developed theoretical model, a sizable number of carefully structured therapeutic techniques, and illustrative examples of therapist-patient exchanges. One important aspect of this cognitive format is that its techniques can be combined with other therapeutic approaches to addiction, such as the use of AA, family supports, and social network supports. Practitioners of these modalities would do well to adapt the cognitive approach in their work. Such applications will indeed be of great value to an emerging body of substance abuse practitioners, whose techniques will inevitably be eclectic in nature.
American Journal of Psychiatry
Cognitive Theory of Substance Abuse
by Aaron T. Beck
This classic work elegantly describes depression both theoretically and clinically, and provides experimental corroboration. It not only outlines the cognitive model, but also reviews other influential theories of depression. Finally, the cognitive treatment for depression is introduced, and compared/contrasted with therapies based on other models.
Depression: Causes and Treatment
by Aaron T. Beck
Books
Anxiety Disorders And Phobias
by Aaron T. Beck, MD and Gary Emery. Ph.D.
with Ruth L. Greenberg, Ph. D.
This comprehensive work lays the groundwork for the cognitive treatment of anxiety disorders. In Part I, Dr. Beck outlines an explanatory model, demonstrating how specific nonadaptive cognitive patterns lead to the complex symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, simple phobias, and agoraphobia. In Part II, Dr. Emery develops a program for treating these disorders based on the cognitive model.
