Matt Kielty

There come these new psychologists who think we can be happy.

who think we can be free from our suffering.

And one of those psychologists was this guy.

Basically the anti-Freud.

Now, Dr. Rogers, something of yourself.

Carl Rogers.

I'm Carl Rogers.

He's the second most influential psychotherapist ever after Sigmund Freud.

And Rogers believed that, sure... Of course, we're all of us a little bit crazy, including me.

People are messy, they're impulsive, but fundamentally... People are good.

...is because... A person would be saying, I'm not really me.

People aren't being themselves.

Your true, authentic self...

Instead, people were suffering because they were trying to be, here's a rather typical statement, who they thought they were supposed to be.

From a young woman.

She says, I think that I began to lose me when I was in high school.

There's the young woman who's always trying to please everybody.

Trying to make people feel at ease around me or to make things go along smoothly.

Or the young man... Why am I afraid of her?

Who tries to never disappoint his mom.