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It’s your view of things that upsets you
Cites the Stoic philosophers, per a summary
Wikipedia quotes Beck’s manual: “The philosophical origins of cognitive therapy can be traced back to the Stoic philosophers.” The line about judgments rather than events is not quoted from Beck.
- 45 BCE
“The whole cause, then, is in opinion; and this observation applies not to this grief alone, but to every other disorder of the mind”
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations. Earliest we can find, 2,023 years earlier.
- 1979
“The philosophical origins of cognitive therapy can be traced back to the Stoic philosophers.”
Secondhand, from Wikipedia. Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy of Depression (1979).
This book is still in copyright, so we read an account of it, not the book.
Sources
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/