Cognitive Therapy: A Practical Guide

Dean Schuyler, M.D.

Praise for Cognitive Therapy: A Practical Guide:

“Intended for trainees in psychotherapy, supervising therapists will find this book a useful adjunct to their own training materials. As a result, Cognitive Therapy belongs in all academic libraries that support graduate training in psychotherapeutic modalities and techniques.”
—E-Streams

Overview – Table of Contents

Excerpt – Chapter 3

Cognitive Therapy: A Practical Guide offers trainees in psychology, psychiatry, social work, or counseling a way to learn how one effectively practices cognitive therapy. This guide combines practical teachings drawn from Schuyler’s highly acclaimed workshops with personal encouragement for trainees to be real and creative persons in their therapeutic practice. The work is nothing less than a clinical tutorial: a focused conversation addressing controversial issues in psychotherapy such as how to establish a here-and-now focus, how to use selective self-disclosure, and how to replace a patient monologue with a therapeutic dialogue. Schuyler succeeds in shifting the focus from learning about cognitive therapy to learning to do cognitive therapy. Trainees in psychotherapy will find this book invaluable while trainers and supervisors will pick up Cognitive Therapy: A Practical Guide as a highly useful adjunct to their own training materials. This book is a revised and thoroughly expanded edition of Schuyler's 1991 book, A Practical Guide to Cognitive Therapy.

Praise for Cognitive Therapy:

‘This is a terrific, really useful book by a superb clinician and outstanding teacher. Dean Schuyler has created a truly practical guide full of wisdom, humor, and compassion. if you want to learn with one of our profession’s premier teachers, read this book. It’s like having one of his great workshops to enjoy again and again.’
--John L. Schwartz, M.D., Editor in Chief, Psychiatric Times

‘Cognitive Therapy: A Practical Guide gives you the basics of cognitive therapy as well as innovations in the treatment of medical patients. It is written in the self-effacing, personal, and warm style that typifies Dr. Dean Schuyler’s work. Clinicians from all perspectives will smile and learn. Dr. Schuyler is the clinician’s clinician.’
—Brian F. Shaw, Ph.D., C.Psych., Community Health Systems Resource Group, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

About the Author

DEAN SCHUYLER, M.D.M., is a nationally recognized expert in Cognitive Therapy who has treated patients for over thirty years. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. A Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Schuyler is also a Founding Fellow in the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.

ISBN: 0-393-70432-7
Fall 03
Paper, 180 pages