Bradley Murray

Author and Psychoanalyst, Vancouver, Canada

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.

Written by Bradley Murray

Impressionist painting of a figure standing by the sea, observing a distant boat. The scene is enveloped in blue tones with a serene, misty atmosphere.

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