Donald Robertson

The people who have the most severe problems are the ones that are most likely to misuse the type of strategies that we get in self-help books, basically. So what's often missing, I think, is this meta skill, if you like, of being able to choose between strategies and figure out their pros and cons, which is actually one of the first things we'd normally do in cognitive therapy.

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yes and no like generally speaking he didn't get directly involved in politics there was one incident where he was elected to a kind of

yes and no like generally speaking he didn't get directly involved in politics there was one incident where he was elected to a kind of

yes and no like generally speaking he didn't get directly involved in politics there was one incident where he was elected to a kind of

committee overseeing a trial um and socrates took a principled stand supposedly in a situation where the mob were kind of baying for the blood of a bunch of athenian generals that were on trial um and he almost was executed as a result of doing that but after that i think uh he said that look if i was to get involved in politics i'd just end up being killed

committee overseeing a trial um and socrates took a principled stand supposedly in a situation where the mob were kind of baying for the blood of a bunch of athenian generals that were on trial um and he almost was executed as a result of doing that but after that i think uh he said that look if i was to get involved in politics i'd just end up being killed

committee overseeing a trial um and socrates took a principled stand supposedly in a situation where the mob were kind of baying for the blood of a bunch of athenian generals that were on trial um and he almost was executed as a result of doing that but after that i think uh he said that look if i was to get involved in politics i'd just end up being killed

you know, because, you know, the stand that I would take would just, you know, in Athens at that time, one of our sources suggested his thinking was he just wouldn't last very long and it would be more constructive of him to kind of critique

you know, because, you know, the stand that I would take would just, you know, in Athens at that time, one of our sources suggested his thinking was he just wouldn't last very long and it would be more constructive of him to kind of critique

you know, because, you know, the stand that I would take would just, you know, in Athens at that time, one of our sources suggested his thinking was he just wouldn't last very long and it would be more constructive of him to kind of critique

I think there's some similarities and differences between him and Roger Stone. What's funny, Roger Stone is one of these people that have published books on roles. It's called Stone's Roles, his book. And some of them are the opposite of what Socrates would say. Roger Stone, I think it's fair to say, is a man who would probably characterize himself as being quite fixated on the idea of revenge.

I think there's some similarities and differences between him and Roger Stone. What's funny, Roger Stone is one of these people that have published books on roles. It's called Stone's Roles, his book. And some of them are the opposite of what Socrates would say. Roger Stone, I think it's fair to say, is a man who would probably characterize himself as being quite fixated on the idea of revenge.

I think there's some similarities and differences between him and Roger Stone. What's funny, Roger Stone is one of these people that have published books on roles. It's called Stone's Roles, his book. And some of them are the opposite of what Socrates would say. Roger Stone, I think it's fair to say, is a man who would probably characterize himself as being quite fixated on the idea of revenge.

That comes through pretty clearly from his book. At no point in his book, again, does he ever really discuss what he thinks is in the interest of society. He spends a lot more time discussing how much he hates his political opponents and how he uses politics as a means to get back at them, interestingly. I guess he has what you would call, with a small C, a very cynical attitude towards politics.

That comes through pretty clearly from his book. At no point in his book, again, does he ever really discuss what he thinks is in the interest of society. He spends a lot more time discussing how much he hates his political opponents and how he uses politics as a means to get back at them, interestingly. I guess he has what you would call, with a small C, a very cynical attitude towards politics.

That comes through pretty clearly from his book. At no point in his book, again, does he ever really discuss what he thinks is in the interest of society. He spends a lot more time discussing how much he hates his political opponents and how he uses politics as a means to get back at them, interestingly. I guess he has what you would call, with a small C, a very cynical attitude towards politics.

It's very different from the way that someone like Socrates would have seen it. Um, and Socrates, I think would be a critic of this idea that revenge is a rational motive for us to have. So there are some things, you know, I try to have an even-handed approach to understand it.