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.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.