On consolation, grief, and coping, and heaven

Read this article on Cicero and psychotherapy by Michael Fontaine

Originally published October 24, 2022 at press.princeton.edu. Special thanks to Princeton University Press.

Psychotherapy is not a recent invention. Thousands of years before Freud, Greek thinkers had discovered the seemingly magical effects that words can have to soothe the mind. “There surely exists a medicine for the soul,” wrote Cicero, the great sta…