Ask Albert Ellis: Straight Answers and Sound Advice from America's Best-Known Psychologist

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Impact Publishers, 2003 - Psychology - 143 pages
The most well-known and highly respected psychotherapist of our time responds to reader questions submitted to the Ask Dr. Ellis website. The answers present the most concise, reader-friendly description yet of the author's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) method. Fifty years of psychotherapy experience and wisdom are distilled in this practical guide for the rest of us. Healthy thinking, healthy emotions, and healthy behavior are explained, with detailed examples and procedures for building lasting emotional well-being."
 

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About the author (2003)

Dr. Albert Ellis (1913-2007) was the author of more than 65 books on psychotherapy, relationship therapy, and self-help, includingFeeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better;Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: A Therapist's Guide;Making Intimate Connections and How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable. He published over 700 articles and composed more than 200 rational songs. Dr. Ellis was rated by psychologists and counselors in the United States as one of the most influential psychologists of our time. He "revolutionized" psychotherapy since 1955, when he created Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the first of the now-popular cognitive behavior therapies. Dr. Ellis was a practicing psychologist, president of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City, and a featured speaker at workshops and conferences throughout the world. He received many awards, including distinguished psychologist, scientific researcher, and distinguished psychological practitioner from several associations, including the American Humanist Association, American Academy of Psychotherapists, Society for the Study for Scientific Sex, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, and Academy of Psychologists in Marital and Family Therapy. He also earned one of the highest awards of the American Psychological Association: Distinguished ProfessionalContribution to Knowledge.

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TitleAsk Albert Ellis: Straight Answers and Sound Advice from America's Best-Known Psychologist
AuthorAlbert Ellis
PublisherImpact Publishers, 2003
ISBN188623051X, 9781886230514
Length143 pages
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Psychology / Movements / Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Psychology / Psychotherapy / General
Self-Help / Personal Growth / General
  
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