Rational Thinking as a Goal of Therapy
Abstract
To provide a positive goal for cognitive therapies, we define a conception of rational thinking. We describe thinking as a search for possibilities, evidence, and goals, and a process of inference by which the possibilities are evaluated. The possibilities may be choice options, beliefs, or goals. Rational thinking is actively open minded. That is, search is sufficiently thorough, and inference is unbiased in bringing forward the possibility...
Paper Details
Title
Rational Thinking as a Goal of Therapy
Published Date
Jan 1, 1990
Volume
4
Issue
3
Pages
293 - 302
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