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Stoicism, Cognitive Therapy, and Resilience

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast

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The Stoic Approach to Psychotherapy

When I started training in CBT, it was already a kind of cliche among cognitive therapists to say this. And so Ellis found himself quoting Epictetus. He said, it's not things that upset us, but rather our opinions about them. It came as a bit of a surprise to me to find that that was the only quote from stoicism that most CBT practitioners were familiar with.

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