Jules on CBT in Prospect

by | Jul 25, 2007


Global Dashboard contributor (and my brother) Jules Evans has a superb piece in this month’s Prospect magazine about Stoicism and cognitive behaviour therapy.

The article’s based on his recent interview with Albert Ellis, the originator of CBT, who died yesterday (see also the obituary in today’s NY Times): it’s the last interview Ellis gave before he died.  A must read.

Author

  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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