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ALBERT ELLIS
(Expert # 35)
t Ellis Quick Facts
Main Areas: Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy; Clinical
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lbert Ellis Biography
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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
Be v al
growth re
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.
Born i what
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called the
subjec y
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
g
nd adopt
BT,
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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
ve ones. REBT gives individuals the p
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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.