Leslie Sokol, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and an internationally recognized leader in the field of cognitive therapy with more than thirty-five years of experience in practice, teaching, and research. She was a past director of education with the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Philadelphia.
Marci G. Fox, PhD, a licensed psychologist, has been in private practice for over twenty-five years. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Philadelphia.
Rachel Perry narrates audiobooks from her home studio in Los Angeles, California. With a background in fine arts, she has been a TV host, performed comedy, acted in TV shows and commercials, and worked in radio.
A native of Rhode Island, Aaron Beck had an early interest in psychology. After graduating from Brown University, he embarked on a career in medicine at Yale University with the intention of specializing in psychiatry. Dissatisfied with classical psychoanalysis, he turned to modified psychoanalytic approaches and was particularly influenced by ego psychology advanced by Rapaport. Ego psychology directed his interest in cognition, and over time Beck abandoned the psychoanalytic framework and formulated his own cognitive theory-behavior therapy for patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders. He developed numerous measurement scales, including the Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, and the Self-Concept Test, which are widely used as diagnostic and research tools in the field. Beck continues to teach, consult, and write about the use of cognitive therapy in treating emotional disorders and other problems.
Leslie Sokol, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and an internationally recognized leader in the field of cognitive therapy with more than thirty-five years of experience in practice, teaching, and research. She was a past director of education with the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therap...