Aaron Beck’s View of Mental Health in a Society That Shapes How We Think (Part 4)

Aaron T. Beck, often called the father of Cognitive Therapy, changed the world’s understanding of mental health by arguing that emotional suffering is not simply about what happens to us, but about how we interpret what happens. Long before social media, modern pressure, or the anxieties of the digital age, Beck observed something timeless: human beings quietly absorb beliefs from their families, cultures, and society, and these beliefs become the lenses through which they see everything....