Spirit And Soul Is Horseshit Of The

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.

Even Injustice Has It's Good Points. It Gives Me The Challenge Of Being As Happy As I Can In An Unfair World.

Spirit And Soul Is Horseshit Of The Worst Sort. Obviously There Are No Fairies, No Santa Clauses, No Spirits. What There Is, Is Human Goals And Purposes As Noted By Sane Existentialists. But A Lot Of Transcendentalists Are Utter Screwballs.

People And Things Do Not Upset Us. Rather, We Upset Ourselves By Believing That They Can Upset Us.

If People Stopped Looking On Their Emotions As Ethereal, Almost Inhuman Processes, And Realistically Viewed Them As Being Largely Composed Of Perceptions, Thoughts, Evaluations, And Internalized Sentences, They Would Find It Quite Possible To Work Calmly And Concertedly At Changing Them.