Psychology · Clinical & Abnormal Psychology
A topic within Clinical & Abnormal Psychology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
2 works
Stefan G. Hofmann and Anu Asnaani
Reviews 269 meta-analyses and finds the strongest evidence for CBT in anxiety, somatoform and bulimic disorders, while noting that much of the literature is methodologically weak.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Steven F. Maier & Martin E. P. Seligman
Revisits the original learned-helplessness account of depression and inverts it: passivity after inescapable shock is not learned but the default brain state, while control over an outcome is what has to be learned to switch it off - a substantial correction to the theory the same authors proposed in 1967.
link checked 17 Sept 2026