Potpourri : Readings

What is hypnosis? An excellent article by Dr. Walter Schulze.

Research in NLP: Steve Andreas Blog is very informative

It led me to these

• Susan Clancy :The Trauma Myth
• BPS Research Digest
• Synesthesia (A neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway)
• Re-evaluating the time of your life (A study of Holocaust survivors who had experienced traumatic events and how some were able to move forward while others remained stuck)
• How can you recall negative past experiences without being overwhelmed?

CT

Cognitive Therapy was originally developed as a treatment for depression, and the emphasis was on shifting "distorted thinking" to "realistic thinking." As a support for this shift, Beck worked with his clients to identify thought distortions.

These included such things as:
Distorted Thoughts
Mind-reading: I’m sure they don’t like me.
Fortune Telling: The future wil be as bad as the past.
All-or-nothing thinking: If I don’t do a perfect job on this, I’m a failure.
Personalization: It’s my fault. I’m completely to blame.
Beliefs:
1. I’m a failure.
2. I’m worthless.
3. I’m hopeless.
Therapy focuses on replacing these core negative beliefs with positive and realistic beliefs.

CBT

Cognitive behavioral therapy (or cognitive behavioral therapies or CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach, a talking therapy, that aims to solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure. The title is used in diverse ways to designate behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and to refer to therapy based upon a combination of basic behavioral and cognitive research. [...] Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavior_modification


Cognitive therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy developed by American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck. CT is one of the therapeutic approaches within the larger group of cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) and was first expounded by Beck in the 1960s. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_T._Beck


Aaron Temkin Beck, M.D. is the father of Cognitive Therapy, having created and refined cognitive therapy over the course of his research and clinical career. He has published more than 550 scholarly articles and 18 books and has developed widely-used assessment scales. [...] Read more: http://www.med.upenn.edu/suicide/beck/index.html

Cognitive therapy seeks to help the patient overcome difficulties by identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, behavior, and emotional responses. This involves helping patients develop skills for modifying beliefs, identifying distorted thinking, relating to others in different ways, and changing behaviors. [...] Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_therapy


List of cognitive–behavioral therapies : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive%E2%80%93behavioral_therapies