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10:58 Illustration of the existence of working memory components 14:10 Memory span testing 2 17:33 Premise about visual imagery and motor task 22:27 Next version of the model
Aaron Beck produced hard evidence that a human human mind can heal body. We may be taught to understand and negate the power of stress-producing negative stories that we recurrently tell ourselves. When depressed or chronically anxious, these cognitive distortions can become beliefs that one is hopeless, helpless, or worthless. Beck showed us how to become clinical scientists who are capable of understanding our mental selves and be effective clinicians and teachers.
I was exposed to CBT via the Strength at Home VA program for veterans with PTSD. My only question is WHY is this not TAUGHT IN SCOOLS, CHURCHES, PRISONS and CONGRESS ?
I did a lot of CBT with lots of medication and it never helped me. It’s hard to convince yourself that your negative thoughts are just cognitive distortions when your living situation is objectively negative and the “negative self-talk” is coming more from outside than inside. I think depression is not always motivated by poor self-image. Sometimes it’s about having a negative view of the world and very often that view is quite justified.
It was great to have enjoyed conversation with Walter on his 100th birthday and other occasions. I'm still learning from him! That was a great day with Kevin Hardy, Don Walsh and many other great people.
Olle Björkman was a giant in plant physiological ecology, with numerous contributions, but especially with respect to photosynthetic adaptation to sun and shade - first with Solidago in Scandinavia, then with Atriplex in California. It's wonderful that his scientific reminiscences - and a bit of the person himself - have been recorded and made available to the public. I can still remember meeting him for the first time in 1974 ... much younger then, of course, but the same personality you see here. Thanks for posting! Cheers, Tom Givnish
there are countries that hide their dependence on the us because they are ashamed. they pretend that they are free individuals but are slaves of us state department officials about whom they have no knowledge of. (reference to keynes opinion about practical men and economists)
Go well, Hanna. You were the most profoundly transformative teacher I have ever encountered and I don't know who I would be without the gifts you shared with me. Thank you for teaching me how to think, to write, to teach, and shaping how I understand the entanglement of words and worlds. Your legacy lives on in the generations of students you empowered. Rest in power.
Taking into account Aaron Beck's cognitive model, dealing with perceptions of negative schemas (or schemata), along with other models Albert Ellis, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and (ABC) Activating event, Beliefs that are irrational, and the Consequences that come from the belief. All contributed to influencing approaches to therapy and therapists who use this approach state that some of their patients report they have wonderful experiences and their CBT was very effective for treating their particular disorder. As with any type of treatment, everyone will have a unique response. However, it is not a cure all In some cases cognitive behavior therapy stresses the therapy technique over the relationship between therapist and patient. In other cases combined behavioral and pharmacological interventions are considered best practices. However, systemic review and meta-analysis found that CBT did not perform better than another evidence-based modality in this context or as an add-on to combined usual care and pharmacotherapy. One cannot always "think" oneself better. The assumption that changing one's thinking patterns can improve one's mood or decrease the symptoms of a mental disorder. Unfortunately, this is not valid in all cases. Assuming thoughts precede emotions, isn't always true Also labeling all "negative" thoughts as pathological or dysfunctional isn't always true. In a landmark 2009 review published in the journal Psychological Medicine, the study authors concluded that CBT is of no value in treating schizophrenia and has limited effect on depression. The authors also concluded that CBT is ineffective in preventing relapses in bipolar disorder. In a 2009 study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry researchers compared depression treatment in adolescents over a period of 28 weeks. The study authors compared treatment with SSRI antidepressants versus the use of a combination of SSRIs and CBT. At the end of the 28 weeks both groups showed improvement but there were no significant differences between them. It was found that CBT did not add any benefit to the antidepressant treatment. The experts on PsychCentral agree that CBT has limited potential for helping those with Histrionic Personality Disorder. The authors state that: "Cognitive-oriented approaches are generally largely ineffective in treatment of this disorder and should be avoided." The reason, they share, is that people with this disorder are often incapable of examining their thoughts and motivations. I personally found that Beck's student David D. Burns in his book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, popularising a list of Cognitive distortions often thought provoking and interesting but a book Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, a book by Robert H. Thouless that I read before Burn's book was published already made me aware of a list of fallacies and a list of List of cognitive biases that was well know before then.
