In previous posts, I’ve written about the cognitive side of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The main technique involves identifying negative automatic thoughts and reframing those thoughts into ...

My most popular article here on Psychology Today is this giant list of 50 Common Cognitive Distortions. You'll never completely eliminate cognitive distortions from your life. However, you can learn ...

Downward Arrow The individual is helped to uncover underlying assumptions in logic and sequence through careful questioning by the therapist, who asks, "If this is true, then what happens?" ...

How clearly do you think you see the world? Well, I have scary news. We don’t see things as they are. We don’t even see. We perceive. Your eyes, ears, and senses receive information from the outside ...

Individuals with depression are prone to maladaptive patterns of thinking, known as cognitive distortions, whereby they think about themselves, the world, and the future in overly negative and ...

There is a term in psychology called "cognitive distortion." This is when your mind convinces you that something is true when it isn't. These thoughts are inaccurate and reinforce negative thinking ...

Why do some of the most intelligent people sabotage their own success? It all goes back to unconscious thought traps, also called cognitive distortions, that anyone can fall victim to. It’s simply ...

In our last three articles we’ve discussed how anger can harm us, humor protects us, and how to develop personal disciplines to bridge divisions in our increasingly divided and often hostile world. A ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. An interesting concept that was developed in this context is that of thought–shape fusion 14 — a cognitive distortion in which an individual ...