ABSTRACT
The cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapist will be using a designated manual in which the steps and stages that the treatment will follow are already laid out. The manual itself is simply a record of the actions followed by the original researchers. The CBT treatment will typically proceed in this kind of way: In the initial sessions, the therapist will educate the client into the principles of CBT as well as the rationales behind the method of treatment that is about to be implemented. This initial stage, the 'educative' process, is already a form of indoctrination and coercion and not the collaborative one it claims to be. After having been educated, the patient and therapist agree the symptoms the treatment will target for modification. The treatment itself consists of catching hold of the 'Negative Automatic Thoughts' and subjecting them to empirical testing followed by a rational analysis of the data.
