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Albert Ellis
American
Psychologist
Born:
Sep 27
,
1913
Died:
Jul 24
,
2007
Get
Myself
People
Think
World
You
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
Life
Future
Best
You
Blame
Mother
Problems
Own
Control
President
Destiny
Ecology
Years
Decide
Which
Them
Realize
Your
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Albert Ellis
Me
You
World
Treat
Brainy
Three
Back
Must
Easy
Well
Hold
Us
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis
Love
You
Acceptance
Everybody
Alive
He
He Or She
She
Accept
Because
Person
Lovable
Traits
Human
Just
Just Because
Love You
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.
Albert Ellis
Future
School
Overcome
Seriously
Every
Think
Herself
System
Rarely
Disturb
Disturbance
School System
Himself
How
Occurs
Child
Psychology
Psychotherapy
Teach
Need
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
Albert Ellis
Man
Woman
Sickness
Self-Esteem
Known
Because
Greatest
Conditional
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert Ellis
Good
World
Rational
Results
Real
Closer
Getting
The Real World
Real World
Us
Beliefs
Bring
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis
Today
Change
People
Feeling
Past
Thinking
How
Behaving
Upset
Themselves
Teach
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis
Depression
You
Given
Constructed
Your
Therefore
Largely
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.
Albert Ellis
Work
Happy
World
Various
Like
Gospel
Around
According
Very
Going
Aspects
Teaching
Albert
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
Albert Ellis
Think
Gene
Had
Inefficiency
Freud
Efficiency
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.
Albert Ellis
Listening
Analyst
Finally
Several
Criticizing
Objections
Wrote
Practicing
Were
Years
Articles
Quit
Six
Psychoanalysis
After
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
Albert Ellis
Angry
Me
Speak
Analyst
Meetings
Flying
Exceptionally
Had
Because
Were
Been
Very
Refused
Vigorous
Many
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
Albert Ellis
People
Contribute
Get
Just
Upset
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
Albert Ellis
People
Unconditionally
Accept
Truly
Get
Anyone
Whether
Loves
Them
Themselves
Therapist
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Albert Ellis
Myself
Age
Women
Fear
Behavior
Approaching
Young
Eclectic
Had
Over
Get
Public
Young Women
Used
Speaking
Therapy
Public Speaking
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.
Albert Ellis
Myself
Behavior
Later
Rational
Emotive
Term
Call
Used
Therapist
Now
Started
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