This research paper revolves around Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and the infinite healing effects of our mind on the treatment of pain management, depression, anxiety, fear, anger and many other dis-eases within the mind and body. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a proven healing tool that does not take years of therapy, once you learn the model. I will show how powerful the mind is in the healing process using CBT and how easily it is to implement with just an adjustment to to the way we perceive things.
Introduction
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a revolutionary therapy that was the brainchild of Dr. Aaron Beck at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1960’s. The origins can be dated back to the late 1800’s and Sigmund Freud and his …show more content…
CBT also shows us how to control our thoughts and not focus all of our energy towards one aspect of our life. Focusing on problems only escalates the severity of these problems to a level of catastrophe or as Dr. Beck states, “a cataclysmic level of thoughts”. He calls this catastrophizing. This is when we put an exaggerated focus on all of the negatives in our life and these thoughts escalate and develop into real physiological and psychological problems to the point of being paralyzed with fear and anxiety. (Jensen et. al. 1991) posits that one of the few consistent findings in the pain-coping literature is that patients who avoid catastrophizing about their predicament seem to fare better than patients’ who catastrophize. This can be anything from a physical or psychological ailment. When we have a back ache and we focus all of our energy on that, it becomes so large that we cannot see a way of getting through it. We think that we will never be able to cope with the pain and we become frustrated or angry with our situation and feel helpless to do anything, therefore becoming angry with ourselves, our loved ones and the world in general. We begin to lose hope in our situation and the vicious cycle of thinking goes round and round and has no way of expressing
Introduction
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a revolutionary therapy that was the brainchild of Dr. Aaron Beck at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1960’s. The origins can be dated back to the late 1800’s and Sigmund Freud and his …show more content…
CBT also shows us how to control our thoughts and not focus all of our energy towards one aspect of our life. Focusing on problems only escalates the severity of these problems to a level of catastrophe or as Dr. Beck states, “a cataclysmic level of thoughts”. He calls this catastrophizing. This is when we put an exaggerated focus on all of the negatives in our life and these thoughts escalate and develop into real physiological and psychological problems to the point of being paralyzed with fear and anxiety. (Jensen et. al. 1991) posits that one of the few consistent findings in the pain-coping literature is that patients who avoid catastrophizing about their predicament seem to fare better than patients’ who catastrophize. This can be anything from a physical or psychological ailment. When we have a back ache and we focus all of our energy on that, it becomes so large that we cannot see a way of getting through it. We think that we will never be able to cope with the pain and we become frustrated or angry with our situation and feel helpless to do anything, therefore becoming angry with ourselves, our loved ones and the world in general. We begin to lose hope in our situation and the vicious cycle of thinking goes round and round and has no way of expressing