ABSTRACT
When I talk about attitudes the emphasis will be on thinking as this powerfully in¯uences how we feel and behave (throughout the book I will be using the terms attitudes and beliefs interchangeably). Though thoughts, feelings and behaviours do in¯uence each other in an interdependent relationship (e.g. if I wake up depressed and stay in bed most of the day this is likely to strengthen my view that `I can't do anything to change how I feel'), thinking is the `senior partner' in this interdependent relationship. What we think (i.e. the content of our thinking) and how we think (i.e. how we process information to arrive at our conclusions) are the particular concerns of cognitive behavioural therapists.
