Beck's Psychodynamic Theory

With ideas opposite psychodynamic approaches, Beck concluded the key to therapy was in a patients' cognition, which is the way we perceive, interpret, and attribute meaning. Beck's preliminary focus was on depression and developed a list of "errors" in thinking that he suggested could cause or maintain depression, including "arbitrary inference, selective abstraction, over-generalization, and magnification (of negatives) and minimization (of positives)." He later expanded his focus on anxiety disorders and introduced "schema", a patient's vulnerabilities or beliefs.
Cognitive therapists aim to discover a patient's core beliefs—the rules they set for themselves. "I should be perfect", "I should be liked by everyone", "My worth depends on