Stoicism Bullying and Beyond

This is the first book applying Stoic philosophy and its extraordinary exercises in resilience and self-care to the epidemic problem of bullying and 'mobbing'. Aimed preeminently at targets it offers guidance on managing negative emotions and making good decisions in what for many people is the greatest challenge of their lives.Workplace bullying can devastate people's lives. Matt Sharpe's excellent book shows how Stoic philosophy can help us cope wisely and resiliently with such challenges. - Donald Robertson author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius (2019) The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy (2020) and founding member of Modern Stoicism. Sharpe understands the terror of being mobbed at work he captures that terror in engaging prose and he draws from Stoic philosophy practical ways of recovering the joy of life. Few books this profound are as easy to read as this one. It will do a lot of people a lot of good. - Kenneth Westhues Professor Emeritus University of Waterloo author of Eliminating Professors: A Guide to the Dismissal Process coauthor of The Remedy and Prevention of Mobbing in Higher Education and other works. Being the target of workplace bullying and harassment is confusing and paralysing. Matthew Sharpe is providing us with a different perspective-based on case studies history and literature. I think that this perspective can help validate a target in the early stages of bullying and harassment and provide some sensible options. - Evelyn M Field OAM.FAPS author of Bully Blocking (2007) Bully Blocking at Work (2010) and Strategies for Surviving Bullying at Work (2011).