And he's merely rephrasing Freud: "The purpose of psychoanalysis is to replace neurotic misery to ordinary unhappiness." (paraphrase) But as the founder of CBT

And he's merely rephrasing Freud: "The purpose of psychoanalysis is to replace neurotic misery to ordinary unhappiness." (paraphrase) But as the founder of CBT, he did build a huge amount on the previous work. It's one of the few formal psychoanalysis methodologies with considerable quantitative evidence documenting its successes.