文档介绍：A fuller explanation of CBT
John Winston Bush, PhD
New York Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
The cognitive side of CBT
Perhaps this will help make it clear. You must have noticed that when you are experiencing an
emotion, your body feels different. This is because you’re sensing certain distinctive changes in
your internal physiology. It’s no accident that the word “feeling” can be a synonym for
“emotion.” In other words (to simplify things a bit) . . .
To have an emotion is to feel the physical (bodily)
consequences of our thoughts.
Imagine the following situation:
A friend is due to meet you for dinner at your house at 7:00. But it’s now past 8:00, and there’s been
no sign of her — not even a phone call. How are you going to feel about this?
Well, as this diagram makes clear, there’s more than one possible answer:
What you think How you feel What you do
"She might have been Worried or anxious Call hospital ERs to find
hurt on the way here." out if she’s there
"She didn’t bother to let Annoyed or angry Chew her out, or act
me know she was chilly, when she does
Friend is late for delayed." show up
dinner
"It doesn’t matter to me Indifferent Nothing in particular
whether people are on
time."
"I needed the time to fix Relieved Relax and enjoy yourself
the house up anyway."
Now of course there are ways not shown in the d