What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

What actually is cognitive behavioral therapy? Is it this weird psychotherapy where you have to do homework exercises, get your mind "cognitive restructured", and walk with a tied banana down the streets to confront social fears?In this book, the German psychologist and psychotherapist Benjamin Ließmann provides an insight into one of the most widespread psychotherapies worldwide. - How do cognitive behavioral therapists explain the occurrence of mental disorders? - How does the "ABC" work, the most important CBT technique for analyzing the own thinking habits? - Which ideas are behind methods such as "flooding", "assertiveness training", "ACT" or the mindful eating of a raisin in slow motion? - And how to talk like a therapist? This book is for: - People who consider undergoing cognitive behavioral treatment and want to find out more about it. - Psychotherapist beginners, who want a casual overview of the many aspects of CBT. - Readers with an interest in psychology.