| Aaron Beck was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on July 18, 1921. He graduated from Brown University in 1942 and attended Yale University, where he earned his Ph.D. in psychiatry in 1946. He became interested in psychoanalysis and cognition during his residency in neurology.
Beck served as Assistant Chief of Neuropsychology at Valley Forge Hospital during the Korean War. He graduated from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute in 1956. After graduation, he launched into a research program to validate psychoanalytic theories. However, after his research did not support his hypotheses, he rejected the psychoanalytic approach and began to develop a cognitive therapy for depression. He developed several well-known tests to assess depression, including the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Scale for Suicide Ideation. Beck wrote numerous influential books, including Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (1979), Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects (1967), and Cognitive Therapy of Depression (1980, with Rush, Shaw, and Emery). |
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