Insights
June 15, 2011
By Robert Leahy, Ph.D., Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City In cognitive therapy we focus on the way that you think about things. When we are distressed, we have automatic thoughts — that is, thoughts that…
February 17, 2011
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently…
January 8, 2011
Just when I thought the whole mindfulness phenomenon couldn’t get any bigger, a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) may be just as effective in preventing relapse in depression as…