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Aaron Beck
Also Known As Aaron T. Beck
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Aaron Beck (1921-2021) was an American psychiatrist regarded as the father of cognitive therapy, developing in the 1960s a structured, testable form of psychotherapy that identifies and restructures the distorted thought patterns underlying depression and other psychological disorders, foundational to the later cognitive behavioral therapy movement.
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BirthplaceProvidence, Rhode Island 1 Death PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionRegarded as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, developing a structured treatment that identifies and restructures the distorted thought patterns underlying depression and other disorders. 1 Notable WorkCognitive Therapy of Depression (1979) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Aaron T. Beck
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In the late 1950s, Aaron Beck was conducting free association sessions in his psychoanalytic practice. During these sessions, Beck noticed that thoughts were not as unconscious as Freud had previously theorized, and that certain types of thinking may be the culprits of emotional distress.
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