Even When People Act Nastily To You,

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.

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. Then I Found That It Intensively Went Into Every Irrelevancy Under The Sun - And That It Didn't Work. People Got Insights Into What Was Bothering Them, But They Hardly Did A Damn Thing To Change.

I Think It's Unfair, But They Have The Right As Fallible, Screwed-up Humans To Be Unfair; That's The Human Condition.

Thinking Rationally Is Often Different From "positive Thinking," In That It Is A Realistic Assessment Of The Situation, With A View Towards Rectifying The Problem If Possible.

To Err Is Human; To Forgive People And Yourself For Poor Behavior Is To Be Sensible And Realistic.