Albert Ellis (born September 27, 1913) is a psychologist who is the originator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the predecessor of Aaron Beck's Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Selected bibliography
- A Guide to Rational Living ISBN 0879800429
- The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse: Getting Off the Emotional Roller Coaster and Regaining Control of Your Life ISBN 0879804459
- Guide to Personal Happiness ISBN 0879803959
- Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy ISBN 1573928798
- Ask Albert Ellis: Straight Answers and Sound Advice from America's Best-Known Psychologist ISBN 188623051X
- How to Control Your Anger Before It Controls You
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: A Therapist's Guide (Practical Therapist Series)
- Dating, Mating, and Relating: How to Build a Healthy Relationship
- How to Keep People from Pushing Your Buttons
- How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable
- The Art & Science of Rational Eating
- Feeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better : Profound Self-Help Therapy For Your Emotions
- Sex and the Liberated Man
- Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression by Julian L. Simon, Albert Ellis, Kenneth Colby
Albert Ellis favors Rational Recovery over Alcoholics Anonymous. Ellis is a Secular Humanist and a signatory to A Secular Humanist Declaration and Humanist Manifesto III.
Quote
"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
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