cognitive therapy

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noun

a form of therapy for depression in which the goal is to diminish symptoms by correcting distorted thinking based on negative self-perceptions and expectations.

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Also called cognitive behavior therapy.

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How to use cognitive therapy in a sentence

After graduating from Brown University in 1942, he entered medical school at Yale University, where he overcame his fear of medical settings through an early form of self-administered cognitive therapy.
Aaron Beck, psychiatrist who developed cognitive therapy, dies at 100|Matt Schudel|November 3, 2021|Washington Post
Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.
You’re Never ‘Cured’ of an Eating Disorder|Carrie Arnold|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The campaign included a push for the World Health Organization to condemn gay-conversion therapy.
China’s Electroshock Gay-Conversion Case|Nina Strochlic|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A big part of the reason is a simple psychological phenomenon called cognitive dissonance.
Why Didn’t Camille Dump Bill Cosby?|Amanda Marcotte|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Collaborating with him on a film was the best kind of therapy I could have asked for.
Blogger Shares and Shames Cancer in ‘Lily’|Amy Grantham|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In serum therapy antitoxins are artificially excited into being in the blood of beasts.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
Thus far we have considered only the scientific aspects of amorphous phosphorus therapy.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various
For the present, we are only concerned with such as are cognitive.
The Analysis of Mind|Bertrand Russell
The first who wrote upon the therapy of cinchona was Barba, a Spanish physician, whose work was printed in Seville in 1642.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine|Roswell Park
We have, in other words, been assuming that language moves entirely in the ideational or cognitive sphere.
Language|Edward Sapir

British Dictionary definitions for cognitive therapy

cognitive therapy

noun

psychol a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to change the way he sees the world and himself: used particularly to treat depression

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Medical definitions for cognitive therapy

cognitive therapy

Any of a variety of techniques in psychotherapy that utilize guided self-discovery, imaging, self-instruction, and related forms of elicited cognitions as the principal mode of treatment.