I Teach People To Be Flexible, Scientific

Religious Fanaticism Has Clearly Produced, And In All Probability Will Continue To Produce, Enormous Amounts Of Bickering, Fighting, Violence, Bloodshed, Homicide, Feuds, Wars, And Genocide.

The Great Majority Of The Things We Now Make Ourselves Panicked About Are Self-created 'dangers' That Exist Almost Entirely In Our Own Imaginations.

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.

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. In That Sense, Psychotherapy Belongs In The Schools.

The Freudian Tradition Will Never Completely Die Because It Has A Few Good Points. For Example, People Have Motives And Thoughts Of Which They Are Unaware. Most Of Cognitive Therapy Has Now Adopted A Similar Idea. On The Other Hand, The Relationship Part Of Psychoanalysis - Where You Must Have A Deep, Emotional Relationship With The Client - Will, I Think, Get Kicked In The Teeth One Of These Days.