
The philosophical roots of CBT help explain its limitations
Not all psychological problems are thinking problems. Trying to solve them purely cognitively, with CBT, won’t help us mature
by Bradley Murray
Bradley Murray is an author and psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant’s Aesthetics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), as well as scholarly articles on philosophy and clinical ethics. He writes about psychology and digital culture for Psychology Today. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.