ABSTRACT
This book discusses the story of how Beck and his followers have developed a set of theoretical concepts and practical ideas that built a major framework for contemporary psychotherapy and counselling. Since the start, they have been continually tested and retested in the research of now several generations of researchers and in the reality of everyday work of practitioners such as his daughter, Judith Beck. Many have been inspired by Beck’s emphasis on being guided by the data and of taking nothing for granted. Despite reaching the age when many retire, Beck has continued to write and teach and has shown a refreshing tendency to rethink and update his work, literally right up to the time of this publication. Beck determined that this spirit was going to limit his vision of what might be possible for him and his patients. In the broader sense, this is the way the have all been travelling since Beck’s arrival on the scene.
