>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
What's more effective? Just telling someone to stop acting irrationally?
"Finish your beer. There are sober kids in India."
-- rwmartin