Aaron Temkin Beck - an appreciation - Reflection.

Aaron Temkin Beck (known to friends and colleagues as Tim) was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on 18 July 1921, the youngest of four children of Russian Jewish immigrants. Beck celebrated his centenary with a Zoom birthday gathering, during which he received a message from the Dalai Lama, who told Beck that 'you have lived a truly meaningful life and continue to be an inspiration to us all'. In the 1970s, Beck asked: 'Can a fledgling psychotherapy challenge the giants in the field - psychoanalysis and behaviour therapy?. [Extracted from the article]