Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, emphasized that we are upset, not by what happens to us, but rather by our thoughts and interpretations of those events. A significant advance in this ancient theory occurred in the 1950s and 1960s when...
In this Podcast, Dr. Burnsย describes his work with a severely depressed, suicidal, hospitalized woman with rapidly cycling bipolar illness, whoโd had 15 years of failed treatment with drugs and psychotherapy. She was telling herself: This f___ing disease has ruined my...