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."

"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."

Albert Ellis, American Psychologist

Psychoanalysis, Listening, 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."

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

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

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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

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

Man

"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

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

Work

"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

"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

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

Trust

"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

"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

"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

"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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"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

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

Author Name

Personal Development

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

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

Man

"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

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

Work

"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

"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

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

Trust

"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

"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

"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

"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