Cognitive therapy

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that individuals can learn new ways of interpreting the world around them as well as interpreting their new concepts of themselves. Our perceptions of the world are relatively set; however, our understanding of the events in the work is far more flexible. We can manipulate - or relearn, depending upon how we choose to look at the process - our interpretations of the world. Cognitive therapy helps people to shift their understanding of the world and so helps to shift their behaviors as well as their self-identity. Given that distorted self-identity is a key element of so many forms of psycho-pathology, the ability of any form of therapy to shift self-identity can be extremely effective.

We should perhaps here define the concept of cognition. According to Clark and Fairburn (1997), cognition is the collection of processes that are involved in acquiring and processing knowledge. This

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t self and world through bodily senses); recognition of those aspects of the world that we have encountered before (i.e. recognition of stimuli to which we have previously responded); creating and understanding new ideas and new relationships among already accepted ideas; analysis and synthesis of new information or relationships, and analytical and deductive reasoning (Clark and Fairburn, 1997). A combination of these different but related cognitive combines to produce what we often call judgement - not in a moral sense, but rather the process that individuals use to define categories and then to distinguish individual members of those established categories from each other. It might be seen that this definition of cognition is thus synonymous for knowledge (or perhaps even for wisdom). But the two are not in fact precisely the same: Knowledge is a relatively static (and passive) concept when compared with cognition. It is because cognition affords us an iterative relationship with our surroundings that cognitive therapy can shift that relationship. Cognition is the dual process of gaining information about the world and then interpreting what that information means to us. Because interpretation is integral to the process of cog
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