While the cognitive therapist view of emotion has existed for millennia, cognitive therapy was developed in its present form by [Albert Ellis]? and [Aaron T. Beck]? in the 1950s and 1960s.
Thereafter cognitive therapy was popularized by the self-help book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Revised edition; New York, 1999: Avon Books) by [David D. Burns]?. Burns reports (in his introduction) that, according to a 1994 study, this book is the most-recommended by U.S. psychotherapists. Burns also reports about a study in which two groups of moderately depressed patients were given Feeling Good to read at different times (one served as a control group for the other); after three months, 75% of the first group and 73% of the second no longer qualified as depressed, and after three years, 72% still were not depressed.
Cognitive therapy is one of the treatments used (usually in conjunction with mood stabilizing medications_ to treat Bipolar Disorder.