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"One reason is that cognitive therapy teaches people practical skills they can use to combat depression any time, anywhere, every day for the rest of their lives. cognitive therapy has proven especially effective in helping adolescents with type 1 diabetes deal with their disease, leading to improvements in both mood and blood sugar control.5 Mental health specialists trained in cognitive therapy seek to change the way the depressed person consciously thinks about failure, defeat, loss, and helplessness." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Beck developed cognitive therapy as a means to discover the "distorted" or "unrealistic" thinking that drives a person's negative feelings and behaviors. Cognitive therapy has evolved a lot over the four decades since Beck's groundbreaking research. The core notion behind it remains the same, however: feeling follows thought. People who suffer chronically from negative emotions (anger, fear, resentment, powerlessness, poor self-esteem) suffer from a distorted thought process. If you can discover and correct the distortion in thought, the negative emotions disappear." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Mindfulness is the basic component of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (see listing) and Mindfulness Based cognitive therapy (see listing). One of the leading centers of research and practice of mindfulness is at the Uni- versity of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare, and Society. MINDFULNESS BASED cognitive therapy (MBCT) www.mbct.co.uk Mindfulness Based cognitive therapy is a combination of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (see listing) with Mindfulness (see listing) meditation techniques developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale in 2002." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"Widely reported by the media in 2002 was a major NIMH-funded study comparing Paxil to cognitive therapy (one kind of psychotherapy). In this study, researcher Robert DeRubeis, chairman of the psychology department at the University of Pennsylvania, and his coresearchers found the following: After four months, the improvement rates were identical for depressed patients treated with either Paxil or cognitive therapy. Ultimately, however, those who had improved with cognitive therapy had a lower rate of relapse than those who had improved with Paxil." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"There are many cognitive therapy methods, several of which are quite helpful. The method I teach here differs from the majority of approaches in one important way: it allows you to drill down into the subconscious mind to reprogram the distorted thought process there. The healing effects of this approach are rapid and extraordinary. Many years ago, a successful middle-aged businessman came to see me for help. This man constantly suffered from colds, the flu, and viral infections of every sort. No sooner would he recover from one when another would assail him." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "Beck, MD, first introduced cognitive therapy to the field of psychology in the 1960s. Beck believed that understanding the way people perceive and interpret experiences (known as cognition) was the key to freeing them from unhealthy emotional patterns. Beck focused initially on depressed clients, ultimately expanding his research to cover other forms of mental disharmony. He discovered that "errors" in people's thinking caused and perpetuated their emotional disease." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "Some mind-body approaches have been documented to be effective and are considered mainstream, such as cognitive therapy, hypnosis, meditation, and expressive therapies. Other mind-body techniques, such as prayer, though widely considered effective, are still being researched for their effectiveness. Neuroscience—The scientific study concerned with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the central and peripheral nervous systems." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Meditation and gentle yoga can also help some people fall asleep more easily as part of a cognitive therapy program or on their own. Insomniacs often spend too much time in bed trying to sleep, and the best thing to do is to get out of bed and read for a while or listen to soft music. The Bottom Line When treating insomnia it is important to consider its impact in its proper context. The manufacturers of sleeping pills make much of the fact that one out of four people complains of insomnia, and of these, half have severe functional disturbances." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "CBT included sleep hygiene, sleep restriction, stimulus control, cognitive therapy, and relaxation. CBT was better than zopiclone for sleep efficiency, with an increase from 81% to 90%, compared to zopiclone, which remained at 82% before and after treatment. CBT resulted in an increase in slow-wave sleep and a decrease in time spent awake at night. Six months after the end of treatment, CBT resulted in better sleep efficiency as measured using polysomnography than either placebo or zopiclone." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Changing sleep habits is the second step in cognitive therapy: for example, using the bed and bedroom only for sleep (no working or TV watching in bed), setting and maintaining a regular sleep schedule, eliminating daytime naps, and minimizing or avoiding altogether caffeine, alcohol, stimulants, and heavy or extremely spicy meals four to six hours before going to bed. Relaxation techniques such as progressive muscle relaxation often help. This technique involves alternately contracting individual muscles and relaxing with exhalation, progressing through the body one muscle group at a time." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "A few sessions with a therapist trained in cognitive therapy is the best way to derive the most benefit. The first step is to replace negative thoughts ("I can't sleep without medications") with more positive ones ("If I take the time to relax, I can get to sleep without help from pills"). The theory is that you "retrain" your brain to learn to sleep peacefully and deeply again." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"That is difficult, so we also use cognitive therapy to explain the reasons we think the things we do, and try to modify the thought. "Compulsions are the area where behavioral therapy is most effective. We expose the patient, either in reality or in his or her imagination, to face what he is afraid of. If you have fears of AIDS or of blood, you are exposed to blood or taken to the hospital where there might be patients with AIDS. Or you will read articles on the condition." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"On the "Children's Depression Rating," patients with Prozac and cognitive therapy improved by an average of 23 points; those on placebos improved by 19 points. One more point: TADS reported suicidal thoughts in 7% who took Prozac compared with 4% in the placebo group. The authors concluded (perhaps a bit defensively) that: "despite calls to restrict access to medications, medical management of [major depression] with Prozac, including careful monitoring for adverse events, should be made widely available, not discouraged." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Or rather we should say that evidence-based medicine has dismissed both psychoanalysis and cognitive therapy. The former was abandoned some time ago; as for the latter, meta-analysis has demonstrated that it does not "confer reliable benefits for patients with schizophrenia and cannot be recommended for clinical practice.46 Recall David Rosenhan's experiment. Were it repeated today, his pseudo-patients would surely be treated with drugs (as would Job!), either "neuroleptics," or "atypical antipsychotics." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Another critic criticized the study's design, noting that the group which received Prozac with cognitive therapy, for which most benefit was claimed, was not double or even single-blinded. Patients in this group knew that they were receiving the real SSRI, as did their physicians, a condition which surely created expectations of maximum benefit—and made comparison with the other groups less meaningful. "The data do not support the TADS authors' optimistic conclusion. The balance between benefit and harm of SSRI for depression in childhood has yet to be shown to be favorable." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"With panic disorders, it is known that cognitive therapy helps prolong feelings of control, which is especially helpful after medication has lessened panic-related symptoms. For more information, contact: • The National Institute of Mental Health at 800-64-PANIC. • Better Breathing Eases Anxiety Here's one often overlooked way to help switch off the panic button: Yoga-type breath-work. It turns out that shallow, short breathing is one of the main signs of a panic attack. However, by consciously breathing deeply, you can calm your body and mind." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"One of the "cardinal" questions of CBT, according to Judy Beck, Aaron's daughter, who now runs the Beck Institute for cognitive therapy and Research in suburban Philadelphia, is simply: "What was just going through your mind?" By posing that simple question, Aaron Beck discovered that his patients were plagued by what he eventually called "automatic thoughts." Automatic thoughts are those words and images that fly through our minds, usually rapid-fire, while we are talking or reacting or waking up or walking down the street." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "But as cognitive therapy adapted behavioral techniques, the name cognitive-behavioral therapy emerged. The more inclusive cognitive-behavioral therapy is now the term most widely used in psychology and psychiatry.) Behavioral tools include relaxation exercises, increasing activities that give the person a sense of pleasure or accomplishment, and exposure and desensitization exercises, whereby the person will over time expose themselves to a triggering situation, in order to gain control over it and reduce the anxiety and fear associated with the trigger." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "In 1994, he founded the nonprofit Beck Institute for cognitive therapy and Research, now run by his daughter. Aaron is in his eighties and is still going strong. In recent years, he has been evaluating CBT for schizophrenia and for the prevention of suicidal behavior, among other psychiatric disorders. Beck ultimately came to the conclusion that psychoanalysis was a "faith-based therapy." Armed with now hundreds of studies, Beck can claim CBT as an empirical therapy." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The National Association of Cognitive Behavior Therapists Web site or that of the Academy of cognitive therapy lays out the details of CBT and also provides names of licensed therapists who follow the tenets of the doctors who developed CBT as an effective, highly focused therapy. Another Web-based alternative uses a parallel method developed by Dr. Abraham Low, a neurologist-psychiatrist who lived in the middle of the last century. Dr." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Short courses of cognitive therapy or hypnosis can alleviate the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for the estimated 15% of adult Americans who have this disorder, according to several recent studies. THE FIRST STUDY In one study, Jeffrey M. Lackner, director of the behavioral medicine clinic and assistant professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine, assigned 59 patients to either a 10-week course of cognitive therapy, a four-week course, or a wait list." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"One study found that "cognitive therapy can be as effective as medications for the initial treatment of moderate to severe major depression but this degree of effectiveness may depend on a high level of therapist experience or expertise."190 Another study found that "cognitive therapy has an enduring effect that extends beyond the end of treatment. It seems to be as effective as keeping patients on medication."191 Exercise As effective as talking therapy may be for depression, exercise may also be beneficial." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"In the latter part of the twentieth century, "talking therapy" changed, too, as traditional psychotherapy, particularly psychoanalysis, was replaced by so-called cognitive therapy, which eschews deep-seated solutions for practical ones.27 With the introduction of SSRIs,28 everything changed. As we wrote in the previous chapter, SSRIs are now the third leading category of pharmaceuticals in retail dollars.29 The best known brand, Zoloft, was in 2003 fifth in sales at $2.6 billion, followed immediately by Paxil, which grossed $2.3 billion in sales." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Yaryura-Tobias says that cognitive therapy is needed to educate patients about their problems and the way they think about themselves. We need "to discuss with them how many false beliefs they have about who they are, why they think this way, why their body looks the way it does, and so forth. So false-belief modification is an important part of treatment." Psychologist Lynne Freeman treats patients with eating disorders from a different point of view. "There's clearly a relationship between anorexia and anxiety. In fact, 38 percent of anorexics have reported a history of having anxiety." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"It is not a cure, experts remind patients, but cognitive therapy can ease the weight of the burden of CFS. CIRCULATION PROBLEMS • Treating Cold Hands and Feet Gingerly X or a winter warmer, try drinking ginger tea rC before going outside q,^ in those coldest of \ months, or take a 500- 1 mg ginger capsule in | the morning. Benefits to circulation accrue over time, not right away, so ginger is a good habit to get into. In addition to taking supplements, try using it as a seasoning in vegetables and soups—or stir a slice into your tea." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for recurring depression in older people: A qualitative study. Aging Ment Health 2007 May; 11(3):346-57. Streeter CC et al. Yoga asana sessions increase brain GABA levels: A pilot study. J Altern Complement Med 2007 May; 13(4):4l9-26. Surwit Richard S. The Mind Body Diabetes Revolution. New York: Free Press, 2004, p. 32. Surwit RS, Feinglos MN. The effects of relaxations on glucose tolerance in non-insulin-dependent diabetes. Diabetes Care 1983 Mar-Apr; 6(2): 176-79. Surwit RS et al." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "DeRubeis RJ et al. cognitive therapy vs medications in the treatment of moderate to severe depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2005 Apr; 62(4):409-l6. Eren I et al. The effect of depression on quality of life of patients with type II diabetes mellitus. Depress Anxiety 2007 Feb 20. Feldman G. Cognitive and behavioral therapies for depression: Overview, new directions, and practical recommendations for dissemination. Psychiatr Clin North Am 2007 Mar; 30(l):39-50. Georgiades A et al. Study presented at the American Psychosomatic Society annual meeting, Budapest, Hungary, March 2007." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Prevention of relapse following cognitive therapy vs medications in moderate to severe depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2005 Apr; 62(4):4l7-22. Innes KE et al. Risk indices associated with the insulin resistance syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and possible protection with yoga: A systematic review. / Am Board Fam Pract 2005 Nov-Dec; 18(6):491-519. Knowler WC et al. Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med 2002 Feb 7; 346(6):393-403. Ludman E et al. Panic episodes among patients with diabetes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"MINDFULNESS BASED cognitive therapy (MBCT) www.mbct.co.uk Mindfulness Based cognitive therapy is a combination of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (see listing) with Mindfulness (see listing) meditation techniques developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale in 2002. The technique is based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program (see listing) created in 1979. In 2001, Bruno Cayoun developed a 4-stage model with the same name but later changed the name to Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy (MiCBT) to differentiate the two therapies." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"In this study, researcher Robert DeRubeis, chairman of the psychology department at the University of Pennsylvania, and his coresearchers found the following: After four months, the improvement rates were identical for depressed patients treated with either Paxil or cognitive therapy. Ultimately, however, those who had improved with cognitive therapy had a lower rate of relapse than those who had improved with Paxil." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

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