THE RESILIENCE FACTOR

HELLO EVERYONE:

The name of the book that deals with cognitive behavioral therapy is: --- The Resilience Factor.   It was written by Karen Revitch Ph. D. & Andrew Shatte Ph. D.  On page 54 of that book the following words appear:

“An enormous body of evidence demonstrates that cognitive behavioral therapy is a highly effective treatment for anxiety and depression.  People can bring about real change in their lives if they focus on what really matters: ones beliefs, thoughts and emotions.

Another book is called, --- Beyond Prozac and it was written by Dr. Michael J. Norden M.D.  On page 176 of that book the following quotation from Dr. Jeffrey Swartz appears:

“Psychological treatments clearly produce biological effects on the brain.  My colleagues and I have recently shown that, similar to Prozac, a form of cognitive behavioral therapy is capable of correcting abnormalities in the brain metabolic rates of patients with obsessive compulsive behavior.”

In the book that I have written on this subject, I quote the above words and add the following: --- Giving someone a Selective Serotonin Uptake Inhibitor such as Prozac is similar to giving someone a fish for supper.   Giving someone beneficial psychological therapy, which would have to include knowledge about the effects of conglomerated fear, is similar to teaching someone how to fish.

To the general public at large. --- Please don’t become over excited.  Help is on the way but it will take some time for it to have the extended beneficial effect that I am sure that it will ultimately provide --- for the entire human race.