Summarize the goals of cognitive behavioral therapy
Summarize the goals of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and contrast it with the psychoanalytic approach.
How Is Behavior Therapy Different Than Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalytic therapy vs cognitive behavioral
Cognitive therapy and psychoanalytic therapy are often opposed without delving into their points of agreement or their differences. However, psychoanalytic therapy has been, and continues to be, a cognitive therapy insofar as it modifies beliefs and ideas.
From the beginning, Freud argued that it was essential to undo the work of repression so that what was subject to unconscious processing became the object of what he explicitly called “associative correction”, that is, once in consciousness it was contrasted with other ideas that could rectify it.