After about 50 years of CBT, third wave therapy pioneers including Hayes, Linehan have put forward the questionsif“ controlling ”thoughts and emotions part of the problem or actually a solution. The shift has been from ‘controlling” thoughts to “acceptance”, mindfulness, visualization, psychological flexibility, action based on values and so forth. Changing the “how” of the…
The main champions being Albert Ellis(1955) REBT who identified irrational beliefs and this later led to development of CBT by Aaron Beck ( 1963). The birth of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy(CBT) approaches has often been described as the clinical equivalent of the COGNITIVE REVOLUTION which took place in the field of scientific psychology thanks to Chomsky…
Psychoanalytical approaches were prevalent until the 20th century. Around 1900, the first wave of behaviourism emerged as a counterpoint to these approaches. Behaviourism posits that behaviours are measurable, can be modelled, and are subject to change. This shift toward focusing on present circumstances, as opposed to the psychoanalytical perspective, gave rise to what is known…
In psychiatry, one may love or hate Freud, but he is afigure who cannot be ignored, making psychotherapy almost synonymous with Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis began with Freud’s revolutionary idea that the unconscious mind drives much of human behaviour, evolved through multiple thinkers, and shaped our understanding of emotion, childhood, identity, and mental suffering.It explains theory…
