I Thought Foolishly That Freudian Psychoanalysis Was

For That Again, Is What All Manner Of Religion Essentially Is: Childish Dependency. If Something Is Irrational, That Means It Won't Work. It's Usually Unrealistic. People Don't Just Get Upset. They Contribute To Their Upsetness. People Have Motives And Thoughts Of Which They Are Unaware. Rational Beliefs Bring Us Closer To Getting Good Results In The Real World. Self-esteem Is The Greatest Sickness Known To Man Or Woman Because It's Conditional. The Art Of Love Is Largely The Art Of Persistence.

The Goal Of All Life Is To Have A Ball.

Beginning In The 1960s, Many Studies Showed That People Who Hold What We Call Irrational Beliefs Are Significantly More Disturbed Than When They Don't Hold Them, And The More Strongly They Hold Them, The More Disturbed They Tend To Be.

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.

There's No Evidence Whatsoever That Men Are More Rational Than Women Or That Men Are More Willing To Surrender Their Irrational Beliefs. Both Sexes Seem To Be Equally Irrational.