Helping patients to think better: cognitive therapy for individuals and couples.
A system of psychotherapy called cognitive therapy, emphasising that mood disorders are affected by distortions in thinking about self, the future and the world, has been found useful in the treatment of diverse neurotic disorders. Helping the patient restructure his thinking by examining such distortions and correcting them would be a vital process in the prevention or recovery of mood disturbances. Applications of cognitive therapy in depression, panic disorder, hypochondriasis and marital distress are described in this article.
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Woodbridge Hospital, Jalan Woodbridge, Singapore.
D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D006801:Humans