The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.

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.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

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.

When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed 2,000 years ago: "People are disturbed not by events that happen to them, but by their view of them." I could see how that applied to many of my clients.

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