The Goal Of All Life

In The Old Days We Used To Get More Referrals, Because People Had Insurance That Paid For Therapy. Now They Belong To Hmos, And We Can Only Be Affiliated With A Few Hmos.

The Trouble With Most Therapy Is That It Helps You Feel Better. But You Don't Get Better. You Have To Back It Up With Action, Action, Action.

The Emotionally Mature Individual Should Completely Accept The Fact That We Live In A World Of Probability And Chance, Where There Are Not, Nor Probably Ever Will Be, Any Absolute Certainties, And Should Realize That It Is Not At All Horrible, Indeed—such A Probabilistic, Uncertain World.

There Are Three Musts That Hold Us Back: "i Must Do Well. You Must Treat Me Well. And The World Must Be Easy." And I Sometimes Think That As Long As We Keep The Second Must, Which Is Socially Learned, Then Some Screwballs 100 Years From Now Will Manufacture Atomic Bombs In Their Bathtub And Maybe Annihilate The Whole Human Race Because They Demand That The Rest Of The World Must Agree With Their Dogmas. When We Don't Agree, They May Zap Us.

Beginning In The 1960s, Many Studies Showed That People Who Hold What We Call Irrational Beliefs Are Significantly More Disturbed Than When They Don't Hold Them, And The More Strongly They Hold Them, The More Disturbed They Tend To Be.