Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
Albert EllisEating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Albert EllisI 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 EllisThe individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.
Albert Ellis