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.

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

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

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

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.