Abstract
Jealousy as a clinical problem has received little attention in the psychiatric and psychological literature. Recently the literature on morbid jealousy has been reviewed and the concept placed within a cognitive-behavioral framework (Tarrier, Beckett, Harwood, & Bishay, 1990). The term morbid jealousy is used to signify an excessive irrational preoccupation with the partner’s fidelity for which there is no objective foundation. Normal jealousy can therefore be defined as a jealousy reaction occurring when the partner is unfaithful. Cognitive therapy is a therapeutic approach based on a model of psychopathology that identifies distortions of thought processes as important in emotional disorders (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979; Beck & Emery, 1985). This paper describes a cognitive approach to treating the problem of morbid jealousy.
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