Albert Ellis Quotes

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.

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.

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 Started To Call Myself A "rational Therapist" In January 1955; Later I Used The Term "rational Emotive." Now I Call Myself A "rational Emotive Behavior Therapist." But From The Start, I Always Included Philosophic Techniques As Well As Experiential, Emotional And Behavioral Techniques.

I Regret That I've Been So Busy With Clinical Work That I Haven't Been Able To Spend Much Time On Experiments And Outcome Studies.

Freud Had A Gene For Inefficiency, And I Think I Have A Gene For Efficiency. Had I Not Been A Therapist, I Would Have Been An Efficiency Expert.

I'm Very Happy. I Like My Work And I Like The Various Aspects Of It - Going Around The World, Teaching The Gospel According To St. Albert - I Like That. And Seeing Clients, Doing Group Therapy, Writing Books.

I'm One Of The Best-loved Psychologists In The United States, But I'm Also Probably The Most Hated One.

As A Matter Of Fact, 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.

I Would Like To Be Remembered As One Of The Individuals Who Founded, Ideologically And Practically, Cognitive Behavior Therapy And Who Pioneered Multimodal Or Integrated Therapy.

When I Was 16 I Started Keeping A Diary In Which I Recorded My Disagreements With The Famous Philosophers. I Didn't Insist That They Were Wrong, That I Was Right And I Had To Prevail. I Just Agreed And Disagreed With Them. I Thought There Was A High Degree Of Probability That I Was Right And Some Other Thinkers Were Wrong. But I Wasn't Positive About It.

If I Had Been A Member Of The Academic Establishment, I Could Have Done Other Experiments.