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ALBERT ELLIS

(Expert # 35)

t Ellis Quick Facts

Main Areas: Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy; Clinical

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eller: “A Guide to Rational Living” (over 1.5 million copies

fi : Author; Psychologist; Counselor; College Professor;

Creator of REBT

rate Affiliation: The Albert Ellis Institute

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lbert Ellis, Ph.D., is an author and psychologist who developed Rational Emotive
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effecti ower to change the unhealthy
ehaviors that interfere with their ability to enjoy life. The Albert Ellis Institute is
a world center for research, training, and practice of REBT.

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program at Columbia University and started a part-time private practice in family
nd sex counseling soon after receiving his master’s degree.

r. Ellis, who earned his Ph.D. from Columbia as well, began to practice classical

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ha ioral Therapy (REBT), a therapeutic approach that stimulates emotion
and teaches people to replace self-defeating thoughts and actions with mo
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n 1913, Dr. Ellis established his interest in counseling while promoting

led the “sex-family revolution.” As he was collecting materials for a

“The Case for Sexual Liberty,” his friends, considering him an expert on

t, started to ask him for advice. In 1942, he entered the clinical psycholog

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psychoanalysis and became a college professor and clinical psychologist. By
1955, he gave up psychoanalysis entirely and instead concentrated on changin
people’s behavior by persuading them to confront their irrational beliefs a
rational ones. He has written approximately 800 articles and 75 books on RE
sex, and marriage, including A Guide to Rational Living.