The therapy that is based on the assumption that psychological problems are due to self-defeating and irrational thoughts is:

A) humanistic psychotherapy.
B) cognitive therapy.
C) operant conditioning.
D) psychoanalysis.


Ans: B) cognitive therapy.

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