Top 4 Quotes by Aaron T. Beck

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

Aaron T. Beck

Stronger, Noise, Defining

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

Aaron T. Beck

Stress, Self, Belief

"Cognitive Therapy of Depression". Book by Aaron T. Beck, 1978.

As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

Aaron T. Beck

Emotional, Perspective, Drug

Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press

Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.

Aaron T. Beck

Depression, Energy, Hibernation

Aaron T. Beck (1967). “Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects”, p.36, University of Pennsylvania Press