Teach Your Brain to Heel

The inventor of cognitive therapy has recieved the Lasker Award for contributions to medicine. As opposed to the often drawn-out “talking cure” of psychoanalysis which seeks the root cause of a mental illness, Cognitive Therapy is a quicker, more pragmatic “counseling technique in which patients learn to head off or defuse self-defeating thoughts before acting on them.”

So if, say, fears of failure and embarrassment cause great anxiety and keep you from the mainstream of life, a few sessions of cognitive therapy—ably assisted by some mellowing psycho-pharmaceuticals—can help you introduce small failures into your everyday life until you’re soon able to make massive failures on a regular basis. And with only a fraction of the sweat stains of years past. Thanks Doc and congratulations.