People Don't Just Get Upset. They Contribute

Whenever You Avoid Alarming Situations, You Almost Always Increase Your Anxiety About Them.

Freud Had A Gene For Inefficiency, And I Think I Have A Gene For Efficiency.

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.

Worry Itself Is One Of The Most Painful Conditions.

My Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (rebt) Was One Of The Very Few Therapies That Was Originated Partly Or Largely Because I Wanted To Be Brief And Efficient. And Therefore Right From The Start I Was Active And Directive. I Tried To Show People Some Central Masturbatory Core To Their Philosophy And To Get Them To Work At Changing It Cognitively, Emotionally And Behaviorally.