Albert Ellis

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (eBook, ePUB)

It Works for Me - It Can Work for You

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Produktbeschreibung

Albert Ellis, the renowned creator of one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) offers this candid self-assessment, which reveals how he overcame his own mental and physical problems using the techniques of REBT. Part memoir and part self-help guide, this very personal story traces the private struggles that Ellis faced from early childhood to well into his adult life. Whether you are already familiar with Ellis''s many best-selling psychology books or are discovering his work for the first time, you will gain many insights into how to deal with your problems by seeing how Ellis learned to cope with his own serious challenges.In his early life, Ellis was faced with a major physical disability, chronic nephritis, which plagued him from age five to nine and led to hospitalization. This experience then caused the emotional reaction of separation anxiety. At this time he also suffered from severe, migraine-like headaches, which persisted into his forties. Later in life, he realized that some of his emotional upset was the result of initially taking parental neglect too seriously. Active and energetic by nature, he gradually learned that the best way to cope with any problem, physical or emotional, was to stop "catastrophizing" and to do something to correct it.As Ellis points out in all of his work, when faced with adversity, we must realize that we have a real choice, either to think rationally about the problem or to react irrationally. The first choice leads to healthy consequencesnormal emotions such as sorrow, regret, frustration, or annoyance, which are justifiable reactions to troubling situations. The second choice leads to the unhealthy consequences of anxiety, depression, rage, and low self-esteem. When we recognize irrational beliefs as such, we must then use our reason to dispute their validity. Ellis goes on to describe how these techniques helped him to cope with many other adult emotional problems, including failure in love affairs, shame, anger, distress over his parents'' divorce, stress from others'' reactions to his atheistic convictions, and upset due to his attitudes about academic and professional setbacks.Honest and unflinching yet always positive and forward-looking, Ellis demonstrates how to gain and grow from trying experiences through rational thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615920655
• Artikelnr.: 67826840

Autorenporträt

Albert Ellis (Author) Albert Ellis, Ph.D. founded Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the pioneering form of the modern Cognitive Behavioural therapies. In a 1982 professional survey, Dr. Ellis was ranked as the second most influential psychotherapist in history. His name is a staple among psychologists, students, and historians around the world. He published over seven hundred articles and more than sixty books on psychotherapy, marital and family therapy, and sex therapy. Until his death in 2007, Dr. Ellis served as President Emeritus of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York, which provides professional training programs and psychotherapy to individuals, families and groups. To learn more, visit www.albertellis.org. Catharine Maclaren (Author) Catharine MacLaren, MSW, CEAP, is an organizational consultant in New York and a certified supervisor in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface
How to Use This Book with APA Psychotherapy Videos
Acknowledgments 
Introduction
History
Theory
The Therapy Process: Primary Change Mechanisms
Evaluation
Future Developments
Summary
Glossary of Key Terms
Suggested Readings
References
Index
About the Authors
About the Series Editors