Judith S. Beck, PhD, co-founder and president of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania. She is author of over 100 papers and book chapters on cognitive therapy, as well as books for professionals and the lay public, including the textbook, Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Guilford Press, 2020)
Humans are thinking animals. We constantly use our brains to make sense of the world—applying logic and the lessons of experience to understand what’s happening,...