Every time I say I’m a cognitive psychologist, I have to explain what that means. It doesn’t mean I can help people with their problems, especially by using cognitive-behavioral therapy. I always liked that approach to therapy, but I only know about it by reading books and always thought its founder, Albert Ellis, was a brilliant man.

But cognitive psychology is not cognitive-behavioral therapy; the former is a major field of psychology and the latter, a specific therapeutic moda...

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