Albert Ellis Quotes

• People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Hardly, Bothering, Insights, Change

• 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

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  Tags in Quit, Finally, Psychoanalysis, Criticizing, After

• 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

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  Tags in Acceptance

• There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Women

• 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

  Tags in Themselves

• Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I’ve received over the years.

  Albert Ellis

• If something is irrational, that means it won’t work. It’s usually unrealistic.

  Albert Ellis

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• Let’s suppose somebody abused you s*xually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

  Albert Ellis

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• If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Establishment, Experiments

• 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

  Tags in According

• 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.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Psychoanalysis, Therapy, Foolishly, Directive

• I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Unconditionally, Themselves

• Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Efficiency, Inefficiency

• The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Art, Love

  Tags in Persistence, Largely

• 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

  Topics in Age

Albert Ellis (35)

Birth:	27th September, 1913
Death:	24th July, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Writer

About

Albert Ellis was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He held M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and American Board of Professional Psychology. He also founded and was the president emeritus of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute.He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the founder of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Based on a 1982 professional survey of U.S. and Canadian psychologists, he was considered as the second most influential psychotherapist in history.

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