Posted by EmmyS on December 20, 2003, at 17:51:11
In reply to psychoanalysis vs. CBT, posted by naiad on December 20, 2003, at 7:16:04
CBT is designed to help people who are having problems with....yes, cognition! So, it's great for people who are dealing with depression for instance, since depression can really affect the way you think about things. Here is some info from the book Feeling Good by David Burns about cognitive distortions. Clearing up these distortions is sorta the basic direction of CBT. If you don't think that you have issues with these - you don't need CBT.
1. ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING:
You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see your self as a total failure.
2. OVERGENERALIZATION:
You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
3. MENTAL FILTER:
You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.
4. DISQUALIFYING THE POSITIVE:
You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.
5. JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS:
You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion.
a. MIND READING:
You arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting negatively to you, and you don't bother to check this out
b. THE FORTUNETELLER ERROR:
you can anticipate that things will turn out badly, and you feel convinced that your prediction is an already-established fact.
6.MAGNIFICATION (CATASTROPHIZING) OR MINIMIZATION:
You exaggerate the important things (such as your goof-up or someone else's achievemet), or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny (your own desirable qualities or other fellow's imperfections). This is also called the binocular trick."
7.EMOTIONAL REASONING:
You assume that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are: "I feel it, therefore it must be true."
8.SHOULD STATEMENTS:
You try to motivate yourself with should and shouldn't, as if you had to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything. "Musts" and "oughts" are also offenders. The emotional consequences are guilt. When you direct should statements toward others, you feel anger, frustration, and resentment.
9.LABELING AND MISLABELING:
This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself. "I'm a loser." When someone else's behavior rubs you the wrong way, you attach a negative label to him" "He's a Goddamn louse." Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded.
10.PERSONALIZATION:
You see your self as the cause of some negative external event, which in fact you were not primarily responsible for.
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