[lbo-talk] manna for anti-Freudians

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>The Interpretation of Reams
>Talking with Albert Ellis, world-renowned anti-Freud therapist
>
>by Rachel Aviv
>
>Albert Ellis, the founder of cognitive behavioral therapy, has spent the 
>past 50 years encouraging patients to "forget their goddamn past!" The best 
>way to cure people's unhappiness, he says, is to just tell them-firmly-to 
>stop acting irrationally.

Amazing.  That's almost verbatim from "The Psychiatrist" routine on the 
original Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner "2000 Year Old Man" album.  It featured 
a psychiatrist (Brooks, of course) discussing his treatment of a young woman 
with a paper-tearing compulsion.  The therapy consisted of telling her over 
and over:  "Don't sit and tear paper!"

Carl