>all CBT books on her bookshelf is that CBT in fact doesn't change anything at all. You will still have symptoms (depression, anxiety, etc.) after CBT, but the

>all CBT books on her bookshelf is that CBT in fact doesn't change anything at all. You will still have symptoms (depression, anxiety, etc.) after CBT, but the goal of CBT is to help you manage those symptoms and live a meaningful life despite those symptoms You're describing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, not CBT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_ther... >psychologists use therapy, and the reduction/elimination of symptoms is not necessarily their primary measure of success Aaron T. Beck invented both CBT and the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression and anxiety symptoms (the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories). CBT was the first psychotherapy to a) explicitly make the reduction of symptoms the primary goal and b) measure the success of therapy using standardised questionnaires to quantify symptomatic reduction. Using a repeatable psychotherapeutic model to measurably reduce the symptoms of psychiatric illness is pretty much the raison d'etre of CBT. Beck's work is by no means immune from the "eureka" anecdote of a patient suddenly entering remission thanks to the acute insights of $theoreticalModel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy >found that most results are things like "CBT for Dummies" and "Teach yourself CBT in 7 weeks". These are not books for doctors, but books for laymen that are merely self-help books with a veneer of science/therapy to help the book sell. Who knows what sort of crap is in these books. Both CBT for Dummies and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Teach Yourself were written by qualified and accredited psychotherapists.