In Fact Most Of What We Call

People Don't Just Get Upset. They Contribute To Their Upsetness.

There's No Evidence Whatsoever That Men Are More Rational Than Women. Both Sexes Seem To Be Equally Irrational.

Beginning In The 1960s, Many Studies Showed That People Who Hold What We Call Irrational Beliefs Are Significantly More Disturbed Than When They Don't Hold Them, And The More Strongly They Hold Them, The More Disturbed They Tend To Be.

Freudian Therapists Do A Lot Of Listening And Very Little Persuading, And That Was One Of The Reasons I Eventually Gave Up Being An Analyst. You Had To Be Too Passive And Not Speak Up, And You Couldn't Give Homework To Clients. While I Was Still An Analyst, I Wrote Several Articles Criticizing Psychoanalysis, But The Analysts Weren't Listening To My Objections. So I Finally Quit Psychoanalysis 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.