Margo Cottone

“PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND PHYSICAL ABNORMALITIES”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“The first category of stress consists of the kinds of overwhelming situations that occur under battle conditions. Stressful situations such as combat present so powerful and realistic a threat that anxiety is almost inevitable.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Another group of physical disorders with psychological overlay is lung disease. Such patients may be conscious of every breath”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

“Psychosomatic disorders are defined in terms of demonstrable abnormalities in the function or structure of an organ or physiological system of the body: skin”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders