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Article: California prison crisis product of long-term neglect
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- July 25, 2007
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Albert Ellis, 93, a provocative psychologist who repudiated long-
held Freudian beliefs to develop a straightforward form of
behavioral therapy that has become one of the most widely practiced
methods of psychological treatment, died July 24 at his home in New
York. He had pneumonia and had suffered a heart attack in March.
Dr. Ellis, once an outcast for his iconoclastic beliefs, placed
an early emphasis on sex therapy and devised a new approach to
treating psychological problems. His methods broke with Freudian
psychoanalytical practices, emphasizing residual issues from
childhood. Instead, he favored direct confrontation with a patient's
behavior and emotions.
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