imustnotcry
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(26/3/04 12:02 pm)
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for treatment.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) refers to a group of therapies that aim to reduce dysfunctional emotions and behaviour by altering behaviour and by altering thinking patterns, based on the assumption that prior learning is currently having adverse consequences. The purpose of therapy is to reduce distress or unwanted behaviour by undoing this learning or by providing new, more adaptive learning.
Cognitive behavioural therapists believe that a change in symptoms follows a change in thinking (or cognitive change) which is brought about by a variety of possible interventions, including the practice of new behaviours, analysis of faulty thinking patterns, and the teaching of more adaptive self-talk.
'When you are small there is no protection from shame, and now that you are older your attempts to keep the unsafe out cost you more then you can imagine. We need to breath in the direction of danger and to sing. We must not only be wounded - for surely all of us are that, but be willing to suffer the terrifying healing with its stations of humiliation, shame, endurance and grief'
- Sark, Succulent Wild Woman, 1997. |
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