Looking back on the heroic work, and the very human qualities, of the father of cognitive behavioral therapy who died at 100.

Author Archives: Benedict Carey
Benedict Carey has been a science reporter for 35 years, at magazines and newspapers. He is a former science reporter for The Times. He was also a health and medical writer for The Los Angeles Times, a freelance journalist and a staff writer for Health magazine.
He has written three books: “How We Learn” (2014), about the cognitive science of learning, and “Poison Most Vial” (2011) and “Island of the Unknowns” (2009), science mysteries for middle schoolers.
Mr. Carey graduated from the University of Colorado with a mathematics degree in 1983. In 1985 he completed a one-year journalism program at Northwestern University