Psychology Today | 13.05.2026 03:14
Standard treatments of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) rely primarily on truth-functional logic to help clients overcome their irrational thinking. Thus, the client learns to avoid overgeneralizations (“My partner is always complaining”) and false hypotheses (“My boss did not say hello to me today so he is intending to fire me”) by paying careful attention to the empirical evidence (“My partner complains more than I prefer but not always”); and alternative explanations (“Maybe my boss was preoccupied with something when he ignored me this morning”).
