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This was a great post, but I'm not sure that CBT came from stoic philosophy. My understanding of its origins is that a psychologist in the 60s noticed that his depressed patients had extremely negative thoughts towards themselves (in contrast to the prevailing theory at the time that depression was a result of suppressed external anger) and found that correcting these cognitive distortions improved his patients. I think the behavioural aspect came out of a similar story of the success of a therapist in treating anxiety patients by changing their avoidant behaviour directly.

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You're probably thinking of Aaron Beck who coined "Cognitive Therapy", which afaik didn't directly cite Stoicism as an influence (although I'd argue is still indirectly part of a tradition of Western rationalist thought that traces back to Greek philosophy). He was ever so slightly preceded though by Albert Ellis who developed "Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy" and did explicitly cite Stoicism as an influence, see e.g. https://modernstoicism.com/stoicism-and-rational-emotive-behaviour-therapy-by-walter-j-matweychuk/

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So yeah, I was perhaps a little glib in my phrasing here, but I think from a history of ideas perspective the Stoics are a part of the story!

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