When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion … - Albert Ellis

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Albert Ellis

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.

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