In this essay the author challenges the standard origin story of cognitive therapy, namely, that its founder Aaron T. Beck broke with psychoanalysis to pursue a more pragmatic, parsimonious, and experimentalist cognitive model. It is true that Beck broke with psychoanalysis in large measure as a result of his experimental disconfirmation of key psychoanalytic ideas. His new school of cognitive therapy brought the experimental ethos into every corner of psychological life, extending outward into the largest multisite randomized controlled studies of psychotherapy ever attempted and inward into the deepest recesses of our private worlds. But newly discovered hand-sketched drawings from 1964 of the schema, a conceptual centerpiece of cognitive therapy, as well as unpublished personal correspondence show that Beck continued to think psychoanalytically even after he broke with psychoanalysis. The drawings urge us to consider an origin story much more complex than the one of inherited tradition. This new, multifaceted origin story of cognitive therapy reaches beyond sectarian disagreements and speaks to a broader understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of cognitive therapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Ambrose, Charles T.;
(2014)
Joseph Hersey Pratt (1872--1956): An Early Proponent of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy in America
(/isis/citation/CBB001421986/)
Article
Scull, Andrew;
(2011)
Contested Jurisdictions: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Psychology in the United States, 1940--2010
(/isis/citation/CBB001230174/)
Book
Lakoff, Andrew;
(2005)
Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry
(/isis/citation/CBB000775225/)
Article
Smith, Matthew;
(2008)
Psychiatry Limited: Hyperactivity and the Evolution of American Psychiatry, 1957--1980
(/isis/citation/CBB000930679/)
Article
Hoffman, Leon;
(2010)
One Hundred Years after Sigmund Freud's Lectures in America: Towards an Integration of Psychoanalytic Theories and Techniques within Psychiatry
(/isis/citation/CBB001232234/)
Thesis
Bass, Jeffrey D.;
(2000)
In exile from the self: Identity, politics, and psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
(/isis/citation/CBB001562662/)
Book
Zuckerman, Moshe;
(2004)
Geschichte und Psychoanalyse
(/isis/citation/CBB000831193/)
Book
Helmchen, Hanfried;
(2008)
Psychiater und Zeitgeist: Zur Geschichte der Psychiatrie in Berlin
(/isis/citation/CBB001033085/)
Article
Rachel Weitzenkorn;
(2020)
Boundaries of Reasoning in Cases: The Visual Psychoanalysis of René Spitz
(/isis/citation/CBB775645382/)
Article
Hirshbein, Laura D.;
(2009)
Gender, Age, and Diagnosis: The Rise and Fall of Involutional Melancholia in American Psychiatry, 1900--1980
(/isis/citation/CBB000932566/)
Article
Lombardo, Giovanni Pietro;
Cicciola, Elisabetta;
(2006)
The Clinical Differential Approach of Sante De Sanctis in Italian “Scientific” Psychology
(/isis/citation/CBB001023637/)
Article
Chiang, Howard Hsueh-Hao;
(2008)
Effecting Science, Affecting Medicine: Homosexuality, the Kinsey Reports, and the Contested Boundaries of Psychopathology in the United States, 1948--1965
(/isis/citation/CBB000930181/)
Book
Shorter, Edward;
(2009)
Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
(/isis/citation/CBB000952059/)
Article
Mayer, Andreas;
(2006)
Lost Objects: From the Laboratories of Hypnosis to the Psychoanalytic Setting
(/isis/citation/CBB000651679/)
Article
Sokal, Michael M.;
(2010)
Scientific Biography, Cognitive Deficits, and Laboratory Practice: James McKeen Cattell and Early American Experimental Psychology, 1880--1904
(/isis/citation/CBB001021215/)
Book
Emily Martin;
(2022)
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter
(/isis/citation/CBB404778816/)
Book
Samuel, Lawrence R.;
(2013)
Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America
(/isis/citation/CBB001213253/)
Book
Renato Foschi;
Marco Innamorati;
(2020)
Storia critica della psicoterapia
(/isis/citation/CBB839061265/)
Book
Conci, Marco;
(2010)
Sullivan Revisited: Life and Work: Harry Stack Sullivan's Relevance for Contemporary Psychiatry, Psychoterapy and Psychoanalysis
(/isis/citation/CBB001232187/)
Article
Viviana Faschi;
(2018)
Nietzsche's Illness Diagnosis Issues: A Review of His Clinical Records and Some Recent Hypotheses
(/isis/citation/CBB271866077/)
Be the first to comment!