Like others, I found some of the questions to sound like gibberish. I had to re-read them several times to figure out what they meant. For me, those were the questions about narrative and post-modern therapies.

My score was based entirely on those thinkers who have been influential in my life, starting with my self-help reading in junior high school right up to the present.

I scored highest in REBT and Reality therapy. No surprise there. I've been reading Albert Ellis and William Glasser from my late teens until the present.

Other important influences were Aaron Beck (and David Burns) and BF Skinner, in the cognitive and behavioral areas. I started reading them as a young adult to the present.

Next came Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Victor Frankl and Rollo May, as well as Fritz Perls. I studied them all, beginning with checking out library books in junior high school. I also studied Freud, but as I got older, and better able to understand, I gravitated toward Jung and Adler.

Victor Frankl (existential therapy) opened my eyes in my early 20s to the idea that one can find meaning in even the most brutal of situations. He was a holocaust survivor and if he could find meaning and reasons to continue living and to love in that experience, it made me realize I could not only survive, but thrive, no matter what had happened to me. I haven't had a single thought that life is unbearable or a single urge toward self-destruction since reading (and re-reading) Victor Frankl's Man Search For Meaning. And some really bad things have happened. External things, objectively horrifying, and thanks to Victor Frankl I knew I could bear them although I was suffering.

It's probably the most influential book I ever read. It made me realize what I wanted to do with my life. Dr. Albert Ellis (REBT) and Dr. Bill Glasser (Reality Therapy and Choice Theory) told me how to do it.

The others provided me with fine-tuning, details and enjoyment.

That was a very enjoyable survey. Thank you for sharing it with us.