cognitive perspective and modern psychology?

[luckyy duckk x3]

how is the cognitive perspective used in psychology today?

[Dr. Bob]

I'm trying to understand your distinction between "cognitive" and "modern" psychology.

Cognitive psychology and therapy focus on mentality and the person's internal-mental conversations. It makes some assumptions about thinking, especially that one's thoughts can be made conscious (that is, the person can be aware of them and of him/her self thinking them) and therefore does not require much in the way of a preconscious or an unconscious. Thoughts are seen as the foundation for one's feelings and, when shown to others, emotions. Key to this is that changing one's thoughts can change one's feelings as well as what one does in the real world.

Cognitive psychology began with Dr. Alfred Adler, co-founder with Freud of psycho-analysis beginning in 1902.

"Modern" psychology is really not so modern. Most of what we do today in therapy, for example, is based on Adler's concepts and counseling methods. Gestalt Therapy (Perls), Transactional Analysis (Berne), Rational-Emotion Behavior Therapy (Ellis), Cognitive Therapy (Beck), Client-centered Therapy (C. Rogers), as well as NLP, existential psycholodgy, humanistic psychology, etc....are ALL based on Adler's methods and concepts. Like wise marriage counseling, family therapy, parent-child counseling, and group therapy started initially with Adler.

We can say that Cognitive psychology and therapy, AND Modern psychology and therapy are pretty much the same thing. New approaches will come along or have come along: Narrative therapy, Ego psychology and Self psychology, for example. When they are examined for their basics, they are found to be based not on Freud (psycho-analysis) or Jung (Analyutic Psychology) or even Watson, Wolpe, Lazarus or Skinner (Behaviorism) . . . but on Adler. For more on Adler's life and concepts: http://www.lifecourseinstitute.com -- Dr, Bob