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 EllisTo err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
Albert EllisFreudian 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.
Albert EllisI teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.
Albert Ellis