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Albert Ellis
September 27, 1913 - June 24, 2007
Nationality: American
Category: Psychologist
Subcategory: American Psychologist

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

   

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

   

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

   

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

   

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

   

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

   

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

   

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

   

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

   

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 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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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