Aaron T. Beck
The father of cognitive therapy (with Albert Ellis as its grandfather), david-d-burns‘s mentor during his residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and the origin of cognitive-behavioral-therapy as this wiki has it.
Beck’s founding move was a negative finding about the tradition he came from: Freudian psychoanalysis lacked empirical support as a treatment for depression (sigmund-freud). What he built instead was designed around that objection — a model specific enough to be operationalized and trialled, which is why the corpus’s two testable therapies (cognitive-behavioral-therapy, acceptance-and-commitment-therapy) both descend from the break rather than from the depth-psychological line that runs sigmund-freud → carl-jung → james-hollis.
Paged thin. Everything here comes from one encyclopedia article about a book he did not write (feeling-good), which establishes his role and nothing about his own work — no Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders, no Beck Depression Inventory, no account of the trials. He is the highest-value primary target left in this corner of the spoke.
Connections
- mentor of david-d-burns
- originator of cognitive-behavioral-therapy
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cognitive-behavioral-therapy · david-d-burns · feeling-good · sigmund-freud · synthesis