Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Ellis
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 27
Died: 2007
Died: July 24
Behaviour Therapist
Cognitive Scientist
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Sex Educator
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Overcome
Future
Psychology
School
Overcoming
Need
Seriously
Psychotherapy
Children
Growth
Disturbance
Needs
System
Disturb
Every
Teach
Occurs
Think
Rarely
Thinking
Child

More quotes by Albert Ellis

Image
Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
Albert Ellis
Image
You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
Albert Ellis
Image
We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis
Image
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis
Image
Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
Albert Ellis
Image
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Albert Ellis
Image
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.
Albert Ellis
Image
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.
Albert Ellis
Image
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.
Albert Ellis
Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert Ellis
Image
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
Albert Ellis
Image
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Albert Ellis
Image
I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.
Albert Ellis
Image
I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert - I like that. And seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books.
Albert Ellis
Image
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
Albert Ellis
Image
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert Ellis
Image
To err is human to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
Albert Ellis
Image
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis
Image
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis
Image
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis