In a process called "cognitive restructuring," staff members help patients substitute destructive thoughts about infertility with constructive attitudes.

The way he works through his destructive thoughts is active, too.

The young man Joseph had known would have found it a repulsive thought, cruel, dishonourable, destructive to the soul.

Was hatred the chaos of thought - corrosive and destructive, yet with a power to move men to great deeds of devastation?

She is such a master of envy and destructive thoughts that George's feelings seem like child's play.

A high level of impairment can be pervasive, including destructive thoughts and behaviors (such as substance abuse).

Immediately she clamped down on such destructive thoughts.

Phase 1 - Recognition of destructive and habitual thoughts that lead to substance abuse.

Isolation is "a fully arbitrary dismissal from consciousness of all disturbing and destructive thought and feeling".

When a destructive thought comes along, patients can reach for their card and repeat the coping statement to themselves.