Albert Ellis

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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I hope to die in the saddle seat. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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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. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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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. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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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. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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