Cognitive Therapy Quotes

One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Man is more powerful than matter.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.