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When Aaron T. Beck first began to conceptualize his new therapy, he applied it to that most common of human conditions and clinical treatment problems, depression (Beck, 1966). As his ideas crystallized over the next decade, he refined the theory and therapy as it applied to the broad range of clinical problems (Beck, 1976). As a result of his weekly clinical meetings with the staff of the Center for Cognitive Therapy, a treatment manual for the treatment of depression grew organically. Starting as a mimeographed booklet of several pages, it eventually became the “treatment manual” that evolved into the now-classic Cognitive Therapy of Depression (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979). Over the past decade, Beck and his colleagues have addressed the cognitive therapy treatment of other clinical problems, such as anxiety (Beck, Emery, & Greenberg, 1985) and personality disorders (Beck, Freeman, & Associates, 1990). Depression has, however, been the clinical problem that has been most studied in terms of treatment efficacy (Rush, Beck, Kovacs, & Hollon, 1977; Blackburn, Bishop, Glen, Whalley, & Christie, 1981; Murphy, Simons, Wetzel, & Lustman, 1984).
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Freeman, A. (1992). Dysthymia. In: Freeman, A., Dattilio, F.M. (eds) Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9777-0_12
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