1960s Quote by Albert Ellis

“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.” quote by Albert Ellis — Download Open image

“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.”

Albert Ellis

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[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

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