“Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.” GivingYearsLittlesStillsReasonSpeakListeningSixQuittingCriticizeArticlesPassiveClientsGave UpPsychoanalysisHomeworkTherapistsObjectionsAnalystsPersuading Author:Albert Ellis
“When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed 2,000 years ago: "People are disturbed not by events that happen to them, but by their view of them." I could see how that applied to many of my clients.” PeopleYearsPhilosophyHappensViewsEventsYears AgoNotionClientsDisturbedPsychoanalysisDisillusioned Author:Albert Ellis
“There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.” ThinkingWorldYearsHumansWellsMayLongSometimesWholeThreeEasyRaceDemandTreatsAgreeHuman RaceBombsDogmaAtomic BombBathtubs Author:Albert Ellis
“This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.” YearsSaidRealSelfSometimesShowsAchieveSelf EsteemEsteemBuddhistSicknessClientsSneakInsidiousConditional Author:Albert Ellis
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.” YearsProblemHappinessResponsibilityDestinyPsychologyDecidedTwentiesBlameEcologyGrowth MindsetYour DestinyPersonal ResponsibilityPsychologistLife HappinessAlways HappyBest YearJust Be HappyJoy HappinessProblems In LifeLife And HappinessAlways Be HappyJust Being YouSelf ResponsibilityLife DestinyResponsibility For Your LifeLife And DestinyDestiny And ChoiceControl Of Your LifeSharing HappinessMy Own HappinessResponsibilities In LifeOutgrowingControl Your DestinyBe Your Own PersonBest Years Of Your LifeBlaming Yourself Author:Albert Ellis
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” LifeInspirationalYearsProblemHappinessSuccessMotherPresidentRealizingAttitudeResponsibilityDestinyPsychologyFateConfidenceDepressionDecidedTwentiesElectionBlameMindsetHard TimesEcologyGrowth MindsetYour DestinyPersonal ResponsibilityPsychologistBe True To YourselfLoving LifeLife HappinessAlways HappyBest YearJust Be HappyJoy HappinessProblems In LifeLife And HappinessAlways Be HappyJust Being YouBlaming OthersOthers HappinessSelf ResponsibilitySuccess Is Not MeasuredLife DestinyResponsibility For Your LifeLife And DestinyDestiny And ChoiceControl Of Your LifeSharing HappinessMy Own HappinessResponsibilities In LifeOutgrowingControl Your DestinyBe Your Own PersonResponsibility To OthersBest Years Of Your LifeBlaming Yourself Author:Albert Ellis
“Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.” PeopleYearsGivenCriticismGiven Up Author:Albert Ellis
“I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.” YearsListeningSixQuittingCriticizeArticlesPsychoanalysisObjectionsAnalysts Author:Albert Ellis
