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On consolation, grief, and coping, and heaven

On consolation, grief, and coping, and heaven

Read this article on Cicero and psychotherapy by Michael Fontaine

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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…

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