ABSTRACT
Aaron T. Beck is a University Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Beck is the author of ten professional books and 300 articles published in professional and scientific journals. He received his M.D. in 1946 from the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Beck is the recipient of numerous professional honors and serves on many editorial boards. He has received a number of research grants and his areas of special research interests are the psychopathology of psychiatric disorders, prediction of suicide, and the cognitive therapy of depression and other disorders. Dr. Beck is one of the originators of cognitive therapy.
