On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Carl Remick wrote:
>> 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
Yep. And strangely, it's one of the most effective forms of therapy for depression and anxiety (often more effective than anti-depressants like Paxil or Prozac)!
Miles