Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders Quotes

“The problem of anxiety neurosis may be epitomized metaphorically as an overactive “alarm system.” The anxious patient is so keyed to the possibility of harm that he is constantly warning himself about potential dangers.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“One of the most common terms applied to such states of anxiety is “free-floating anxiety.” As we shall see”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“anxiety as an expression of the life-preserving fight-flight reaction and consider it an essential biological mechanism for mobilizing the organism for action in response to danger.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Depressed patients have a special penchant for expecting future adversities and experiencing them as though they were happening in the present or had already occurred.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND SELF-CRITICISMS”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“We are still encumbered by a psychological disorder that seems to discredit the most firmly entrenched concepts of the nature of man. Paradoxically”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“The phenomenon of self-consciousness and attention-binding in acute neurosis is similar to reactions experienced by many people in realistically threatening situations.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“The role of anticipations in influencing feelings and action is far more dominant than is generally recognized.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Desensitization is effective because it provides a practice session in which the patient is able to experience his reactions to the feared situation”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Another group of physical disorders with psychological overlay is lung disease. Such patients may be conscious of every breath”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“THE “INTERNAL STRESSOR”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“The first category of stress consists of the kinds of overwhelming situations that occur under battle conditions. Stressful situations such as combat present so powerful and realistic a threat that anxiety is almost inevitable.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Emotional arousal is accompanied by increased activity of the autonomic nervous system.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“These internal strains are manifested by states of excitation experienced subjectively as anger”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND PHYSICAL ABNORMALITIES”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“psychological specificity models: The kind of psychosomatic disorder depends on a specific personality profile”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Psychosomatic disorders are defined in terms of demonstrable abnormalities in the function or structure of an organ or physiological system of the body: skin”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“The hard-headed may banish phenomena such as imagination to the realm of the ethereal: Someone who is paralyzed because of meningitis has a “real” sickness; a person with hysterical paralysis has an “imaginary” affliction. The notion of real is regarded as opposite to imaginary. Yet”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Fixation phobias are derived from the common childhood fears that the patient apparently does not outgrow and which he acknowledges having had as far back as he can remember.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“DEVELOPMENT OF PHOBIAS There is a good deal of evidence that phobias of adults fall roughly into two groups: (1) early intense fears common to many or most children which the individual has not “outgrown.” These may be labeled “fixation phobias” to indicate that conceptual maturation with respect to this fear was arrested at an early stage in development; (2) “traumatic phobias,” similar to traumatic neuroses”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Multiple Meanings: The Barbershop Phobia”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“First”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“It is important to recognize that a strong exposure to the phobic situation”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“When we examine the content of the phobia”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“The greater the anxiety and disability compared to the actual risk”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“unfamiliar to be “natural fears.” Important components of a phobia are the urgent desire to avoid the phobic situation and”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“A fear based simply on ignorance could not justifiably be classified as phobia.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“characteristic of catastrophizing is that the person equates the hypothesis with a fact.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Another characteristic of the thinking disorder in anxious patients is the tendency to “catastrophize”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“THINKING DISORDER IN ANXIETY NEUROSES”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders