Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
B. F. Skinner · Free Press · 1953
Skinner's general statement, and the clearest case for the behavioural position.
Joseph Wolpe · Stanford University Press · 1958
Systematic desensitisation. The first behavioural therapy with an outcome record.
Albert Ellis · Citadel Press · 1962
Rational emotive behaviour therapy, and the first sustained cognitive challenge to analysis.
Aaron T. Beck · Penguin · 1976
The cognitive model stated whole, by a clinician who trained as an analyst.
Albert Bandura · Prentice Hall · 1977
Modelling and self-efficacy. The bridge between behaviourism and cognition.
Aaron T. Beck, A. John Rush, Brian F. Shaw, Gary Emery · Guilford Press · 1979
The manual that made CBT testable, and therefore fundable.
Marsha M. Linehan · Guilford Press · 1993
DBT. The first treatment to show results with a group most services had given up on.
Dennis Greenberger, Christine A. Padesky · Guilford Press · 1995
The client-facing CBT workbook, and the one most often handed across the room.
Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, Kelly G. Wilson · Guilford Press · 1999
The third wave stated in full. Acceptance and values rather than disputation.
Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson · W. W. Norton · 1967
One cannot not communicate. The Palo Alto group's founding statement.