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| ace_berzerker 2006-09-17, 4:26 pm |
| Psychiatrist Is Among Five Chosen for Medical Award
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
The New York Times
September 17, 2006
The psychiatrist who upset Freudian dogma in the 1960’s by developing
cognitive therapy is one of five winners of this year’s Lasker Awards,
widely considered the nation’s most prestigious medical prizes.
The psychiatrist, Dr. Aaron T. Beck, 85, of the university of
Pennsylvania, won the Lasker clinical research award. Dr. Beck’s
technique, cognitive therapy, transformed the treatment of depression
and many other mental health conditions.
Cognitive therapy “is one of the most important advances — if not the
most important advance — in the treatment of mental diseases in the last
50 years,” said Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, the chairman of the Lasker jury.
The therapy is a counseling technique in which patients learn to head
off or defuse self-defeating thoughts before acting on them. Dr. Beck
and his students showed that cognitive therapy can reverse serious
mental illnesses in weekly sessions over two or three months.
In making those advances, Dr. Beck set a new standard for determining
the effectiveness of any type of psychotherapy, the Lasker jury said, by
testing his radical new methods in clinical studies with a degree of
rigor not previously applied to any form of talk therapy, including
Freudian psychoanalysis. Dr. Beck published much of his work in his own
journal, Cognitive Therapy and Research, in part because other
psychiatrists resisted, if not rejected, his findings.
Dr. Beck understood the reluctance. In a letter in The New York Times on
March 6, 1983, he wrote that he empathized with his critics. He said
that in the late 1950’s his research had “set out to prove that anger
turned against the self played a central role in depression,” but to his
surprise it “ultimately refuted this hypothesis.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/health/17lasker.html
http://mail.med.upenn.edu/~abeck/
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| Card XII 2006-09-17, 9:30 pm |
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"ace_berzerker" <ace_berzerker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:W2cPg.140952$LF4.97580@dukeread05...
> Psychiatrist Is Among Five Chosen for Medical Award
> By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
> The New York Times
> September 17, 2006
>
> The psychiatrist who upset Freudian dogma in the 1960’s by developing
> cognitive therapy is one of five winners of this year’s Lasker Awards,
> widely considered the nation’s most prestigious medical prizes.
>
> The psychiatrist, Dr. Aaron T. Beck, 85, of the university of
> Pennsylvania, won the Lasker clinical research award. Dr. Beck’s
> technique, cognitive therapy, transformed the treatment of depression and
> many other mental health conditions.
>
> Cognitive therapy “is one of the most important advances — if not the most
> important advance — in the treatment of mental diseases in the last 50
> years,” said Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, the chairman of the Lasker jury.
>
> The therapy is a counseling technique in which patients learn to head off
> or defuse self-defeating thoughts before acting on them. Dr. Beck and his
> students showed that cognitive therapy can reverse serious mental
> illnesses in weekly sessions over two or three months.
>
> In making those advances, Dr. Beck set a new standard for determining the
> effectiveness of any type of psychotherapy, the Lasker jury said, by
> testing his radical new methods in clinical studies with a degree of rigor
> not previously applied to any form of talk therapy, including Freudian
> psychoanalysis. Dr. Beck published much of his work in his own journal,
> Cognitive Therapy and Research, in part because other psychiatrists
> resisted, if not rejected, his findings.
>
> Dr. Beck understood the reluctance. In a letter in The New York Times on
> March 6, 1983, he wrote that he empathized with his critics. He said that
> in the late 1950’s his research had “set out to prove that anger turned
> against the self played a central role in depression,” but to his surprise
> it “ultimately refuted this hypothesis.”
Beck has made some good contributions, but he was preceded in the techniques
that he called cognitive therapy by many others, particularly Albert Ellis
and Donald Meichenbaum. There are others, too.
card xii
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| marcia 2006-09-17, 9:30 pm |
| Card XII wrote:
> "ace_berzerker" <ace_berzerker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:W2cPg.140952$LF4.97580@dukeread05...
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> Beck has made some good contributions, but he was preceded in the techniques
> that he called cognitive therapy by many others, particularly Albert Ellis
> and Donald Meichenbaum. There are others, too.
>
> card xii
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>
I thought she was referring to Kinsey's research on sexual arousal in
infants (?). Didn't Ellis support gay relationships, but oppose sexual
contact with children and "mentally deficient" adults? I'm confused
(surprise).
marcia
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| Card XII 2006-09-17, 9:30 pm |
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"marcia" <design1@insight.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Card XII wrote:
> I thought she was referring to Kinsey's research on sexual arousal in
> infants (?). Didn't Ellis support gay relationships, but oppose sexual
> contact with children and "mentally deficient" adults? I'm confused
> (surprise).
>
> marcia
I don't know about that. But Ellis is best known for developing and
teaching "rational emotive therapy," which is based upon humanistic concepts
but uses a decidedly cognitive approach.
card xii
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| marcia 2006-09-17, 9:30 pm |
| Card XII wrote:
> "marcia" <design1@insight.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:BEmPg.5402$t73.5093@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
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> I don't know about that. But Ellis is best known for developing and
> teaching "rational emotive therapy," which is based upon humanistic concepts
> but uses a decidedly cognitive approach.
>
> card xii
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So you don't see a logical connection to her mention of baby rapists? I
wondered... (or should have known better)
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"ace_berzerker" <ace_berzerker@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:W2cPg.140952$LF4.97580@dukeread05...
> Psychiatrist Is Among Five Chosen for Medical Award
> By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
> The New York Times
> September 17, 2006
>
> The psychiatrist who upset Freudian dogma in the 1960’s by developing cognitive therapy is one of
> five winners of this year’s Lasker Awards, widely considered the nation’s most prestigious medical
> prizes.
>
> The psychiatrist, Dr. Aaron T. Beck, 85, of the university of Pennsylvania, won the Lasker clinical
> research award. Dr. Beck’s technique, cognitive therapy, transformed the treatment of depression and
> many other mental health conditions.
>
> Cognitive therapy “is one of the most important advances — if not the most important advance — in the
> treatment of mental diseases in the last 50 years,” said Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, the chairman of the
> Lasker jury.
>
> The therapy is a counseling technique in which patients learn to head off or defuse self-defeating
> thoughts before acting on them. Dr. Beck and his students showed that cognitive therapy can reverse
> serious mental illnesses in weekly sessions over two or three months.
>
> In making those advances, Dr. Beck set a new standard for determining the effectiveness of any type
> of psychotherapy, the Lasker jury said, by testing his radical new methods in clinical studies with a
> degree of rigor not previously applied to any form of talk therapy, including Freudian
> psychoanalysis. Dr. Beck published much of his work in his own journal, Cognitive Therapy and
> Research, in part because other psychiatrists resisted, if not rejected, his findings.
>
> Dr. Beck understood the reluctance. In a letter in The New York Times on March 6, 1983, he wrote that
> he empathized with his critics. He said that in the late 1950’s his research had “set out to prove
> that anger turned against the self played a central role in depression,” but to his surprise it
> “ultimately refuted this hypothesis.”
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/health/17lasker.html
>
> http://mail.med.upenn.edu/~abeck/
regarding your posts today, check out
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache...lient=firefox-a
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"bull" <bull_vorona@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:jekWg.8863$Go3.4249@dukeread05...
> ralph wrote:
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> buddhism??
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> aarrrrggghhhhhh!
I find CBT interesting. Lots of good links at
http://www.academyofct.org/Library/...CB-5A26BE8F27EE}&SP=2
I downloaded the pdf from the link called Five Minute First Aid for Psychosis
and read a few of the other links.
I even read a book from the library about "Misbelief Therapy", based on a combination
of Christian and CBT principles.
Ralph
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bull wrote:
> ralph wrote:
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> http://tinyurl.com/fhcd6
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> http://tinyurl.com/gtvtm
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> http://tinyurl.com/klw4z
I would ascribe the popularity of CBT to the impatience of most of the
public with more extensive
therapy(person-centered and psychoanalysis,for example) & to
insufficiently available funding sources.but it helps some with it's
specificity & lower costs.Depends on who are.Dr.Aaron Beck was a
pioneer-his book on treatment of depression was very good,though I
couldn't do it.But one can learn from Dr. Beck.Maybe,surely,the way a
practicioner works depends a great deal on their personality.I know
folks I respect who practice CBT therapy or
CBT.Issues?Distractions?Insults or- a swallow of moonshine Harry
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