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Were the nuts and bolts of CBT for anxiety figured out in the 1940s?
Why do people continue to do things that are clearly not in their best interests? It can seem obvious, from the outside, when a friend’s behaviour is self-defeating. And yet they may continue very persistently to sabotage themselves. Ovid, the Roman poet, captured it well, in a famous piece of verse from his Metamorphoses:
Desire is persuading me one …
