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"Ernest Becker was an academic outcast. In 1960, he got his Ph.D. in
anthropology; his doctoral research compared the unlikely and
unconventional practices of Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis. At the time,
Zen was seen as something for hippies and drug addicts, and Freudian
psychoanalysis was considered a quack form of psychology left over from the
Stone Age.

"In his first job as an assistant professor, Becker quickly fell into a crowd
that denounced the practice of psychiatry as a form of fascism. They saw the
practice as an unscientific form of oppression against the weak and helpless.

"The problem was that Becker’s boss was a psychiatrist. So it was kind of
like walking into your first job and proudly comparing your boss to Hitler.
As you can imagine, he was fired.

"So Becker took his radical ideas somewhere that they might be accepted:
Berkeley, California. But this, too, didn’t last long." - Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck