religious cognitive-emotional therapy: a new form of psychotherapy.

Religious Cognitive–Emotional Therapy: A New Form of Psychotherapy

From the ancient times up to this date, it has been thought that religion and spirituality have important effects on human being's mental life. However, some psychologists and psychotherapists have ignored this role, and thus neglected to study the effects of applying religion and spirituality in psychotherapy. However, many psychologists and psychotherapists have recently studied the relations...

The effect of cognitive-based cognitive-mindedness-based therapy on emotional schemas and cognitive-emotional ordering strategies of divorced women

Introduction: Divorce as the legal end of a paired relationship is one of the most stressful events in life, and how to manage and adjust emotions is one of the determinants of mental health and quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of cognitive-mindedness-based therapy on emotional schemas and cognitive-emotional ordering strategies of divorced women. Method: The p...

Religious Psychotherapy in Depressed Patients

چکیده: این مطالعه به منظور تعیین نتایج روان درمانی در قوم مالایا که از زمینه فرهنگی و مذهبی قوی برخوردار هستند، انجام شده است. بیماران به دو گروه مورد مطالعه کنترل که هر کدام شامل ۳۲ بیمار افسرده بوده، تقسیم شدند. در گروه مورد مطالعه، ۲۰-۱۵ جلسه کوتاه مدت روان درمانی با یک نگرش ذهبی صورت گرفت. در حالی که برای گروه کنترل دیدگاه مذهبی حذف شده بود. گروه تحت مطالعه در طی سه ماه اول از شروع مطالعه ...

The Cognitive Representation of Religious Ritual Form : A Theory of Participants ' Competence with their Religious Ritual Systems

Cognitive psychotherapy and integrative psychotherapy

The text presented below, consisting of two complementary parts, was written almost three years ago as a chapter for a book on cognitive therapy. As the publication of the book was continually delayed, a week before his death Professor Leder asked the book editor, Andrzej Kokoszka, if he didn’t think it suitable to publish at least parts of the book separately, since the publication date was in...

The emotional and attitudinal consequences of religious hypocrisy: experimental evidence using a cognitive dissonance paradigm.

We explored the emotional and attitudinal consequences of personal attitude-behavior discrepancies using a religious version of the hypocrisy paradigm. We induced cognitive dissonance in participants (n = 206) by making them feel hypocritical for advocating certain religious behaviors that they had not recently engaged in to their own satisfaction. In Experiment 1, this resulted in higher level...