Understanding Emotional Problems and Their Healthy Alternatives : The REBT Perspective.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (243 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Anxiety and Concern -- 1 Understanding Anxiety -- General Points About Anxiety -- In Order to Feel Anxious a Person Needs to Think That They Are About to Face a Threat -- A General Anxiety-Creating Philosophy (GAP) Underpins General Anxiety -- Ingredient 1: A Rigid Attitude -- Ingredient 2: An Awfulising Attitude -- Ingredient 3: An Unbearability Attitude -- Ingredient 4: A Self-Devaluation Attitude -- When a Person is Anxious in Specific Situations, They Focus on a Specific Threat and Practise a Specific Version of ... -- Focusing on and Going With the Behavioural and Thinking Consequences of Rigid/extreme Attitudes Will Serve to Maintain ... -- Behavioural Consequences of Rigid/extreme Attitudes -- Thinking Consequences of Rigid/extreme Attitudes -- How a Person Adds Anxious Insult to Anxious Injury -- Understanding Specific Forms of Anxiety -- Anxiety About Losing Self-Control -- Anxiety About Uncertainty -- Health Anxiety -- Social Anxiety -- Panic Attacks -- A View of the World Founded on Anxiety- Creating Rigid/extreme Attitudes Renders a Person Particularly Vulnerable to … -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 2 Understanding Concern -- General Points About Concern -- In Order to Feel Concern a Person Needs to Think That They Are About to Face a Threat -- A General Concern-Related Philosophy (GCP) Underpins General Concern -- Ingredient 1: A Flexible Attitude -- Ingredient 2: A Non-Awfulising Attitude -- Ingredient 3: A Bearability Attitude -- Ingredient 4: An Unconditional Self-Acceptance Attitude -- When a Person Experiences Concern in Specific Situations, They Focus on a Specific Threat and Practise a Specific Version … -- Focusing on and Going With the Behavioural and Thinking Consequences of Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes Will Serve to …. Behavioural Consequences of Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes -- Thinking Consequences of Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes -- Understanding Specific Forms of Concern -- Concern About Losing Self-Control: The Healthy Alternative to Anxiety About Losing Self-Control -- Concern About Uncertainty: The Healthy Alternative to Anxiety About Uncertainty -- Health Concern: The Healthy Alternative to Health Anxiety -- Social Concern: The Healthy Alternative to Social Anxiety -- Concern About the Bodily Symptoms of Anxiety: The Healthy Alternative to Panic Attacks -- A View of the World Founded on Concern-Related Flexible/Non-Extreme Attitudes Helps to Protect a Person Against Anxiety -- Part 2 Depression and Sadness -- 3 Understanding Depression -- Sociotropic Depression -- The Role of General Rigid/extreme Attitudes in Sociotropic Depression -- Focusing on Sociotropic Loss -- Bringing a Specific Rigid/extreme Attitude to a Specific Sociotropic Loss -- The Effects of Rigid/extreme Attitudes Towards Sociotropic Loss on Behaviour -- The Effects of Rigid/extreme Attitudes Towards Sociotropic Loss on Subsequent Thinking -- Bringing Rigid/extreme Attitudes to Subsequent Thinking -- Metaphors and Images in Sociotropic Depression -- Autonomous Depression -- The Role of General Rigid/extreme Attitudes in Autonomous Depression -- Focusing on Autonomous Loss -- Bringing a Specific Rigid/extreme Attitude to a Specific Autonomous Loss -- The Effects of Rigid/extreme Attitudes Towards Autonomous Loss on Behaviour -- The Effects of Rigid/extreme Attitudes Towards Autonomous Loss on Subsequent Thinking -- Bringing Rigid/extreme Attitudes to Subsequent Thinking -- Metaphors and Images in Autonomous Depression -- How Depression Deepens: The Interaction of Sociotropic and Autonomous Depression. How a Person Can Make Themself Autonomously Depressed After They Have Made Themself Sociotropically Depressed -- How a Person Can Make Themself Sociotropically Depressed After They Have Made Themself Autonomously Depressed -- Self- and Other-Pity -- Self-pity -- Other-pity -- Depression About Depression -- How a Person Can Depress Themself About the Physical Aspects of Depression -- Self-devaluation About Depression -- People Develop and Rehearse a View of the World Founded on Depression-Based Rigid/extreme Attitudes -- Preparing the Ground for Depression -- Note -- Further Reading -- 4 Understanding Sadness -- Sociotropic Sadness -- The Role of General Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes in Sociotropic Sadness -- Focusing on Sociotropic Loss Only When It Has Occurred -- Bringing a Specific Flexible/non-Extreme Attitude to a Specific Sociotropic Loss -- The Effects of Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes Towards Sociotropic Loss on Behaviour -- The Effects of Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes Towards Sociotropic Loss on Subsequent Thinking -- Metaphors and Images in Sociotropic Sadness -- Autonomous Sadness -- The Role of General Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes in Autonomous Sadness -- Focusing on Autonomous Loss -- Bringing a Specific Flexible/non-Extreme Attitude to a Specific Autonomous Loss -- The Effects of Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes Towards Autonomous Loss on Behaviour -- The Effects of Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes Towards Autonomous Loss on Subsequent Thinking -- Metaphors and Images in Autonomous Sadness -- Plight Pity -- Plight Pity Without Self-Pity -- Plight Pity Without Other-Pity -- Sadness About Depression -- How a Person Can Feel Sad But Not Depressed About the Physical Aspects of Depression -- Unconditional Self-Acceptance About Depression. People Develop and Rehearse a View of the World Founded on Sadness-Related Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes -- Maintaining Sadness in the Face of Loss -- Part 3 Shame and Disappointment -- 5 Understanding Shame -- The Components of Shame -- Inferences in Shame -- 'I've Fallen Short of My Ideal' -- 'I've Let Down My Reference Group' -- 'I've Been Let Down By a Member of My Reference Group' -- 'Others Are Judging Me Negatively' -- The Person Holds and Rehearses Rigid/extreme Attitudes Towards Their Inference -- Shame About Falling Short of an Ideal -- Shame About Letting Down a Reference Group -- Shame About Being Let Down By a Member of a Reference Group -- Shame When Being Judged Negatively in a Shame-Related Context -- The Major Negative Self-Judgements in Shame -- 'I Am Defective' -- 'I Am Insignificant' -- 'I Am Not Good Enough' -- 'I Am Weak/pathetic' -- 'I Am Disgusting' -- How a Person Can Make Themself Feel Ashamed By Evaluating Themself According to What Happened to Them -- Unconditional Shame -- Thinking That Stems From Shame-Based Rigid/extreme Attitudes -- Overestimating the 'Shamefulness' of One's Behaviour -- Overestimating the Extent to Which Others Will Notice One's 'Shameful' Behaviour -- Overestimating the Likelihood That Others Will Regard One's Behaviour as 'Shameful' -- Overestimating the Extent to Which Others Will Regard One's Behaviour as 'Shameful' -- Overestimating the Length of Time That Others Will Remember One's 'Shameful' Behaviour -- Overestimating the Likelihood That Others Will Regard One as 'Shameful' -- Overestimating the Extent to Which Others Will Regard One as 'Shameful' -- Overestimating the Length of Time That Others Will Regard One as 'Shameful' -- Overestimating the Likelihood That Those Observing Will Tell Others About One -- Exaggerating What Those Observing Will Tell Others About One. Exaggerating the Extent to Which Others Will Ridicule One -- Exaggerating the Extent to Which Others Will Exclude One -- Behaviour That Stems From Shame-Based Rigid/extreme Attitudes -- Physically Withdrawing From Others -- Looking Away From Others -- Isolating Oneself From Others -- Denying Responsibility for One's Actions -- Concealing Verbally and Physically -- Overcompensating for One's Feelings of Shame -- People Develop and Rehearse General Shame-Based Rigid/extreme Attitudes -- People Develop and Rehearse a View of the World Founded on Shame-Based Rigid/extreme Attitudes -- Further Reading -- 6 Understanding Disappointment -- The Components of Disappointment -- Inferences in Disappointment -- The Person Holds and Rehearses Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes Towards One or More of the Above Inferences -- Disappointment About Falling Short of an Ideal -- Disappointment About Letting Down a Reference Group -- Disappointment About Being Let Down By a Member of a Reference Group -- Disappointment When Being Judged Negatively By Others -- The Major Attitude Towards Self in Disappointment -- When a Person Experiences Disappointment, They Do Not Define Themself According to What Happened to Them -- Thinking That Stems From Disappointment-Based Flexible/non-Extreme Attitudes -- Being Realistic About the Negativity of One's Behaviour -- Being Realistic About the Extent to Which Others Will Notice One's Behaviour -- Being Realistic About the Likelihood That Others Will Regard One's Behaviour as 'Highly Negative' -- Being Realistic About the Extent to Which Others Will Regard One's Behaviour as 'Highly Negative' -- Being Realistic About the Length of Time That Others Will Remember One's 'Negative' Behaviour -- Being Realistic About the Likelihood That Others Will Regard One as 'Highly Negative'. Being Realistic About the Extent to Which Others Will Regard One as 'Highly Negative'.