ABSTRACT
Cognitive therapy is a short-term, focused form of psychotherapy developed from the finding that psychological disturbances frequently involve habitual errors in thinking, or cognition. The theoretical structure is related to cognitive psychology, information processing theory, social psychology, evolutionary biology and psychoanalysis. The underlying theoretical rationale stipulates that the way an individual feels and behaves is determined by the way he structures his experiences. When, for example, an individual interprets a situation as dangerous, he will feel anxious and want to escape.
