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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."

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Donna Grant

"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand."

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Donna Grant

"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Albert Ellis
"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."

Man

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Albert Ellis
"As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing."

War

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Albert Ellis
"If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic."

Work

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Albert Ellis
"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert."

Work

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Albert Ellis
"People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection."

Time

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Albert Ellis
"Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world."

Trust

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Albert Ellis
"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."

Flying

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Albert Ellis
"I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it."

Thought

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Albert Ellis
"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today."

Change

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Albert Ellis
"I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist."

Behavior

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