Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures

Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9783031069321
ISBN-13 : 3031069323
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Book Synopsis Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures by : Ross G. Menzies

Download or read book Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures written by Ross G. Menzies and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clients enter therapy grappling with a range of difficulties. They don’t speak in diagnostic terms, but instead focus on the everyday problems that confront them. Their struggles may include isolation, loneliness, anxiety, guilt and regret, and problems making decisions in a world that offers seemingly endless choice. In contrast, the cognitive-behavior therapist is trained in the language of conditioning and extinction, avoidance and safety behaviors, behavioral activation and attentional biases. This book explores the ideas of the existentialist philosophers as a bridge between the suffering client and technically trained clinician. The volume is not a rejection of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), but seeks to place CBT in the broader context of the most popular philosophic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. Therapists versed in existentialism argue that the individual's starting point is characterized by a sense of disorientation in the face of an apparently meaningless and absurd world. Each individual must become solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and authentically. Each of us must confront the ‘Big 5’ existential issues of death, isolation, identity, freedom and meaning and find our solutions to these problems. The present volume explores each of these existential themes in turn. Each section opens with a theoretical chapter describing the relevant existential dilemma and its impact on human experience. The second chapter in each section explores its relationship to mental health disorders and psychopathology. The third chapter in each section explores the evidence for treating the existential issue from a CBT framework. This book will be of value to those interested in CBT, philosophy and mental health, and will appeal to psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists.


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