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Article: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: It Works for Me - It Can Work for You.(Book Review)
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- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
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- July 1, 2005
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Albert Ellis. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: It Works for Me--It Can Work for You. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2004.
In this book, Albert Ellis, 91, founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), presents a forthright self-assessment of how he mastered his own physical and emotional challenges using the techniques of REBT. Those challenges included overcoming anxiety related to childhood hospitalizations, and coping with abysmal parental neglect, amatory defeats, writing failures, irritability, and anger; as well as developing a viable life philosophy. That philosophy, codified in the discipline of REBT, would eventually gain worldwide recognition as an ...