Cognitive Psychotherapy Toward a New Millennium Scientific Foundatio

In the roughly two decades since Aaron T. Beck published the now classic "Cognitive Therapy of Depression," and Michael J. Mahoney declared the "Cognitive Revolution," much has happened. What was proposed as the "cognitive revolution" has now become the z

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COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY TOWARD ANEW MILLENNIUM SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE Edited by

Tullio Scrimali

and

Liria Grimaldi

Department of Psychiatry Medical School University of Catania Catania, Italy

Foreword by Arthur Freeman Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

Proceedings of the International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy: Cognitive Psychotherapy Toward a New Millennium, held June 20-24, 2000, in Catania, Italy ISBN 978-1-4613-5135-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-0567-9

ISBN 978-1-4615-0567-9 (eBook)

©2002 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer AcademiclPlenum Publisher, New York in 2002 Softcover reprint of the Hardcover I st edition 2002 http://www.wkap.nl/ 10987654321 A c.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher

This book is dedicated to Carlo Perris. He was a great Italian and a great man. We have been and we will be forever proud of his friendship. Ciao, Carlo!

Tullio Scrimali Liria Grimaldi

Introduction to the images Hey now, all you sinners Put your lights on, Put your lights on Hey now, all you lovers Put your lights on, Put your lights on

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Because there s a monster living under my bed Whispering in my ear There s an angel with a hand on my head She says I've got Nothing to fear f. .. J "Put your lights on" - from: C. Santana - Supernatural - 1999 We tum on our lights on meeting other sorrowful human beings in therapy. Dancing in the moonlight in company, or crossing the soul's oceans and deserts with our fragmentary maps ... Rashly we take on the task of saving ship-wrecked souls in the storm of emotions. We keep our light on.

Lorenzo Filippone

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"Images" by Lorenzo Filippone

About the Editors Tullio Scrimali

Tullio Scrimali (Catania, Italy, 1952) studied Medicine at the University of Catania and received specialty training in Psychiatry at the University of Milan where he had his Master Degree in 1981. For the past 20 years he has taught cognitive psychotherapy at the University of Catania and has been a Teacher Member of the Italian Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy since 1987. In addition to local teaching, he has lectured or presented workshops in many cities in Europe and North America. Most recently, he set up an international training program in Warsaw, the first cognitive therapy training program in Poland. He has published 6 books and more than 100 scientific articles on topics such as the links between brain functioning and cognition, constructivist approaches to therapy, cognitive therapy and rehabilitation of schizophrenic patients. The articles and chapters of book are published in many languages. He founded the international journal, Complexity and Change and he was Chair of the Scientific Committee and of the Organizing Committe