CBT
Cognitive behavioural therapy: brief, structured, usually delivered from a manual, and the most heavily trialled form of talking treatment.
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Adam Grant quoted
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School
Their wordsPerfectionism stems from unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism.
↗There’s More to the Mental Health Crisis Than Smartphones and Social Mediaadamgrant.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Sasha Chapin quoted
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves
Their wordsA large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now.
↗Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Sasha Chapin quoted
Their wordsUnhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.
↗Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Annie Wright quoted
Licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and executive coach
Our readingSchema therapy was designed for entrenched patterns that do not respond well to traditional CBT.
Their wordsIt was specifically designed for clients who have deeply entrenched, chronic psychological patterns that do not respond well to traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
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Lex Fridman quoted
AI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast
Our readingAction comes before motivation: you do first and feel afterwards, not the other way round.
Their wordsIf you’re stuck in a depressive cycle, even when you really, really, really, really don’t want to do anything, to do something. Try to make progress because the good feeling comes on the end of that. The whole point is to do first and then feel, not feel and then do.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 6th of 28 in this recording
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Scott D. Miller quoted
Founder of the International Center for Clinical…
Their wordsIf one really wanted to know whether a treatment (e.g., CBT, IPT, ACT, EMDR) was more effective, it had to be directly compared to an approach intended to help - what Wampold and colleagues termed, a "bona fide" treatment. Doing otherwise, they argued, conflated artifacts of research design with actual research results.
↗Results from the first bona fide study of deliberate practicewritings.scottdmiller.com
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Atul Gawande quoted
American surgeon, writer and public health researcher
Their wordsEven more than what you think, how you think matters.
↗The Mistrust of Science (Caltech commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 6th of 6 in this piece
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Jonathan Shedler quoted
Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF
PsychotherapyPsychodynamic therapy
Their wordsThe term "evidence-based therapy" is also, de facto, a code word for "not psychodynamic."
↗Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com
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Jonathan Shedler quoted
PsychotherapyPsychodynamic therapy
Their wordsNo research ever suggested that manualized CBT was more effective than psychodynamic therapy. It was just more often researched. There is a world of difference between saying a treatment is less often researched and saying it has been scientifically discredited.
↗Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com
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Leslie Greenberg quoted
Psychologist and Distinguished Research Professor at York University
Their wordsit’s not an in-depth approach to how humans function. It’s good at helping people cope, but not really good at dealing with the core problems people have.
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Leslie Greenberg quoted
Their wordsCognitive behavioural therapy aims to change the way we think about our emotions. It’s very much focused on regulating or suppressing painful feelings, which can be damaging
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Marcus Aurelius quoted
Roman emperor and Stoic-influenced philosopher (121 to 180)
Their wordsTake away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, "I have been harmed." Take away the complaint, "I have been harmed," and the harm is taken away.
↗Meditations (tr. George Long, 1862)gutenberg.org All 13 from this book
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Marcus Aurelius quoted
Their wordsIf thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
↗Meditations (tr. George Long, 1862)gutenberg.org All 13 from this book
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Epictetus quoted
Greek Stoic philosopher (born in the 50s CE
Their wordsMen are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things; for example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were it would have seemed so to Socrates; for the opinion about death that it is terrible, is the terrible thing.
↗Encheiridion of Epictetus, as recorded by Arrian (tr. George Long, 1877)gutenberg.org All 10 from this book