1.
The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.
Aaron T. Beck
The more powerful individual is not the one who is most vociferous but the one who can unobtrusively steer discourse towards clarifying and resolving issues.
2.
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.
Aaron T. Beck
Cerebral treatment strives to reduce psychological strains by rectifying mistaken beliefs and self-messages. Through rectifying misconstrued ideas we can decrease excessive reactions.
3.
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.
Aaron T. Beck
4.
Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.
Aaron T. Beck