Our thinking determines our feelings, attitude, both to ourselves and to others. Thoughts give rise to solutions and related actions. Everyone is not opposed to his thoughts generating a successful result, safe communication with other people. But it happens that, without giving an account, people themselves can take offense at the words of others, although there was no evil intention in these remarks. Most of the psychological problems of each person consist in the wrong perception of both the surrounding world and people, as well as misconceptions about reality. Cognitive therapy sets as its main goal the analysis and change in the views and beliefs of the individual.
This type of therapy is one of the most common and most effective in modern psychotherapy. It is based on redesigning inadequate emotions into adequate ones.
Cognitive therapy techniques are used in the following cases:
- Anxiety (including panic anxiety).
- Depression (also moderate, which was previously cured in psychiatric hospitals).
- Chronic pain syndrome.
- Eating disorders (including overeating).
- Various social phobias (fear of speaking to the public, fear of the stage, fear of exams).
- Chemical dependencies (for example, alcoholism and drug addiction).
The advantage of cognitive therapy is that it has a scientifically oriented direction (it has in its foundation a base in the form of the latest recent achievements in neurophysiology and psychology). At the end of the treatment, any results can be checked by means of appropriate special tests.
Structure of treatment
The scheme of cognitive treatment consists of successive steps with feedback from the patient. The patient-psychotherapist relationship is based on mutual respect. According to many years of research, people to whom cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques have been applied achieve success even in areas that they previously thought they could not achieve. This indicates that treatment is not only a temporary improvement. Sometimes therapy is combined with taking appropriate medications.
Method of cognitive-behavioral therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an approach through which there is a change in thoughts, mental images in order to help in overcoming behavioral or emotional problems. This kind of psychotherapeutic therapy can form habits that help to get rid of harmful stereotypes, etc.
There is a huge number of techniques and techniques used to cure the patient. During the sessions, the therapist suggests that the patient determine the thoughts that have a parasitizing effect on the patient's thinking, and then tries to change their focus through leading questions called Socratovsky ("Who said that everything is bad?", "Why did you decide that this would be so to go on forever ", etc.). But one change in the way of thinking is not enough for a complete cure, so a certain cognitive-behavioral therapy (communication trainings, auto-training, meditation techniques) is also used. They help to change the patient's thinking from negative to more optimistic, and also to acquire a certain style of behavior.
According to modern psychological research, this type of therapy is one of the most effective means of treating mental disorders. In Western psychotherapy, it is a common technique of treatment, which shows successful results for an amazingly short time. And a rare psychiatrist or psychologist denies that the method of cognitive-behavioral therapy is not successful and effective.