Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

One way to understand the several hundred types of psychotherapy said to exist today (1) is to organize them along a spectrum with classical psychoanalysis at one end and simple behavior therapy at the other. The former looks to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) as its founder, the latter to Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Freud saw human behavior as determined by a dynamic unconscious. Pavlov saw it as nothing more than learned responses to external stimuli. (read more......)