Aaron Beck
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Sep 10, 2026
David DozoisGUEST
And part of it is focused on how do we become aware of our own thoughts about our partners? Because those can be distorted.
David DozoisGUEST
Aaron Beck, who developed cognitive therapy, talked in a book called Love is Never Enough about how in relationships, very early on, we have this positive bias about our partners.
David DozoisGUEST
And then very quickly over time, those very things we loved about our partner can be things that start to irritate us.
David DozoisGUEST
And we can start to develop a negative bias in our relationships, in our thinking.
Martin SeligmanGUEST
I was a young... became a, a well-known researcher and got tenure very early in my life in the 1970s.
Martin SeligmanGUEST
And my mentor was someone named Aaron Beck, and Tim Beck and I worked together, and I was at least present at the founding of cognitive behavioral therapy.
Martin SeligmanGUEST
But the story I wanna tell you, John, is the epiphany story.
Martin SeligmanGUEST
So Tim and I would meet once a week for lunch.
Dan KochHOST
And the w- but again, there's also trial and error.
Dan KochHOST
In, in cognitive therapy, Aaron Beck described it as collaborative empiricism, the father of cognitive therapy.
Dan KochHOST
Uh, that's where you and your client become little scientists together do- running experiments in their life to find out what's working and what, where, where the evidence is pointing and things like that.
Dan KochHOST
So, and again, and w- just a, a little, a little change on what you said.
Jodi WellmanGUEST
And I think that there's a trick in the world of positive psychology with resilience where all or nothing thinking is known as a thinking trap.
Jodi WellmanGUEST
Like, it's a formal trap that I think, like, Aaron Beck came up with a billion years ago.
Jodi WellmanGUEST
And one of the ways out of it is to stop and create an alternate pathway.
Jodi WellmanGUEST
Be like, "Is there another way forward where it's not that I need to become the full-time swimmer or that I am now, like, full on, like, I'm sketching like a madwoman indoors, outdoors all the time, on trains, on planes?" No.
Manaan KarrayHOST
The internal hardware is corrupt.
speaker_1HOST
And that profound limitation is exactly what gave rise to arguably the most impactful model of the 1970s, which is cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, developed by Aaron Beck and his colleagues.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
This is where we step into the next room of our architectural model.
speaker_1HOST
Beck realized that behavioral activation alone wasn't enough if the patient's cognitive processing was fundamentally distorted.
Manaan KarrayHOST
And here's where it gets really interesting.
Manaan KarrayHOST
Beck proposed that cognition operates on three distinct levels.
Manaan KarrayHOST
This is crucial for anyone trying to build a mental model of depression.
John R. MilesHOST
The institution redesigned the room so the effort actually paid off.
John R. MilesHOST
Dr. Aaron Beck, the father of cognitive therapy, whom close friends and colleagues like Angela knew simply as Tim, took this distinction even deeper late in his career.
John R. MilesHOST
He observed that none of us possess a static, unyielding personality.
John R. MilesHOST
Instead, our minds operate in what he termed modes, reflexive states of being that click into place depending on our fit with the immediate environment.
Manaan KarrayHOST
We are entering the cognitive chamber.
speaker_1HOST
This is the territory pioneered by Aaron Beck.
speaker_1HOST
And stepping into this room marks a significant shift in our clinical reasoning.
speaker_1HOST
We are leaving the shadowy basement of unconscious drives, repressed traumas, and edible conflicts, and we are stepping into the brightly lit room of conscious or at least preconscious thought.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
Let me reference a Philadelphian.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
Tim Beck lived much of his life in Philadelphia.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
He lived to 100.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
He lived in Rittenhouse Square in the condos there.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
Oh, and with my husband, I speak in a certain way.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
But I think that when we notice... of ourselves, that there are good and bad ones, that there are good and bad ones according to us.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
I mean, here's a parable that Tim Beck loved, the parable of the two wolves.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
Tim would often try to explain this very deep concept.
Anna DonaghyHOST
So every time you run the same belief, thought, behavior loop, you're not just repeating a habit, you're physically strengthening the pathway that makes it easier to run again next time.
Anna DonaghyHOST
There's actually a well-established model in psychology developed by the psychiatrist Aaron Beck that draws exactly this distinction.
Anna DonaghyHOST
He calls the deep, largely unconscious layer, the core beliefs and the fast surface level layer that they produce, he calls these the automatic thoughts.
Anna DonaghyHOST
And automatic is the key word.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
Manaan KarrayHOST
And later, Aaron Beck gives us the cognitive model.
Manaan KarrayHOST
This is the famous cognitive triad.
Manaan KarrayHOST
The patient feels helpless, unworthy, and hopeless.
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