Quotations

*1623 Henry Cockeram, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - The English Dictionarie of 1623 *:‘To end a Comedy or the like’ (Quoted in OED) *1947 Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, University of Michigan Research Center for Group Dynamics - Human Relations *:Particularly likely to overreact are those who tend to catastrophize (Ellis, 1962) and those who have Type A personalities (Friedman & Rosenman, 1974) *2001 David H. Barlow - Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders *:Another way to catastrophize is to jump to an extreme conclusion from an unimportant or irrelevant event.