In these two articles Sahanika Ratnayake attempts to unpack the history of cognitivebehavior therapy (CBT) and explain a course in which CBT became more prominent while psychoanalysis suffered a loss of prominence. In the first paper, "The Decline of Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Part I: Dismantling the Legend of CBT," she describes the fracas in which Aaron Beck, the founder of CBT, attempted to both defend the merits of CBT and expose the demerits of psychoanalys…
Read moreIn these two articles Sahanika Ratnayake attempts to unpack the history of cognitivebehavior therapy (CBT) and explain a course in which CBT became more prominent while psychoanalysis suffered a loss of prominence. In the first paper, "The Decline of Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Part I: Dismantling the Legend of CBT," she describes the fracas in which Aaron Beck, the founder of CBT, attempted to both defend the merits of CBT and expose the demerits of psychoanalysis. Popper, Grünbaum, and Eysenck enter this discussion.According to Ratnayake, Beck's argument against psychoanalysis (and psychoanalytic therapy) rests on a couple of factors: 1) that the psychoanalytic explanation of... Read More.
