Author: Donald Robertson

Practises cognitive behavioural therapy and has spent a career pointing out that CBT's founders took the core ideas directly from the Stoics and said so.How to Think Like a Roman Emperor runs Marcus Aurelius's life alongside the specific psychological techniques, the view from above, negative visualisation, cognitive distancing, and shows where the modern therapy inherited each.Robertson is a trained therapist rather than a classicist, which makes the book more practically useful and occasionally lighter on the philosophy than specialists would like. He co-founded the Modern Stoicism project.