What exactly is cognitive therapy and who does it?

Question

How can cognitive therapy help with irritable bowel symdrome? Is it done by a phychiatrist or someone else?

Answer 1

Dr. David Burns is the leading Cognitive Therapist. His "The Feeling Good Book," is the leading text, and easy to understand. How you think is how you feel. You monitor your thoughts, and every time you engage in "distorted thinking," you stop, and replace it with a positive thought.
Ex: "I'm a fool! I never do anything right!"
I'm a fool: labelling. You have now put yourself in a horrible category.
I never do anything right!: disqualifying the positive.
Any good thing you have done is forgotten.
Undistorted: I have made some mistakes. I do some good things, too. I'll try again.
Every time you think, ideally, you check yourself.
After a while, negative thoughts diminish, and lose their power.
Cognitive Therapy. Feeling good.

Answer 2

Cognitive therapy or cognitive behaviour therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias and other forms of mental disorder.

It involves recognising unhelpful or destructive patterns of thinking and reacting, then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. Its practitioners hold that typically clinical depression is associated with (although not necessarily caused by) negatively biased thinking and irrational thoughts. Cognitive therapy is often used in conjunction with mood stabilizing medications to treat bipolar disorder. Its application in treating schizophrenia along with medication and family therapy is recognized by the NICE guidelines (see below) within the British NHS. According to the U.S.-based National Association of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapists:

"There are several approaches to cognitive-behavioural therapy, including Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, Rational Behaviour Therapy, Rational Living Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Dialectic Behaviour Therapy."[1]
A related approach, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, can be regarded as a form of integrative therapy, integrating insights of both psychodynamic (especially Kleinian) therapy with a broad cognitive approach to therapy. Another approach, the cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP), developed specifically to treat the chronically depressed adult, has been shown in a large-scale trial to provide highly significant response rates when combined with medication.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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