ABSTRACT
Cognitive-behavior therapists, with their array of practice techniques, can develop many unique interventions based upon the Buddhist psychology of cognition that can be of immense utility in teaching the anxious individual a more adaptive belief system about the nature of their cognitions. The cognitive revolution of the 1960s and 1970s influenced the way that behavior therapy was practiced, and practitioners incorporated the "how and why people think" into the interventions of what became known as the second generation of behavioral therapy or cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Two groups of clients, people with borderline personality disorders and individuals with relapsing depression, are difficult to treat or would relapse after undergoing treatment using traditional CBT methods. Again, Buddhism as a religion is not what contemporary psychologists study; rather it is the teachings of the Buddha as a way of living that have captured the attention of CBT theorists and practitioners.
