Interesting Facts About Albert Ellis And His Work

In this post everyone will find a lot of different pieces of information about Albert Ellis. Albert Ellis is considered as one of the most influential psychotherapist in the history. Albert is most known for promoting Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

Albert wrote more than 40 books and worked more than 12 hours per day. When Columbia awarded him a doctorate in 1947, he had started believing that psychoanalysis was the most effective form of therapy. That is when he started working on his REBT theory which he meant for to be a guide to rational living.
REBT was originally introduced in 1955. Rational emotive behavior therapy is a philosophically based psychotherapy focused on resolving behavioral disturbances. It is directed towards enabling people to lead happier lives. It was previously called rational therapy.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic approach, which aims to tackle problems concerning dysfunctional emotions through systematic procedure.

A Guide to Rational Living is one of the most well known books written by Albert Ellis. The book starts by summarizing the results of his ground-breaking work on what we do that causes us to feel bad.

Simple Example:

The activating event: Your boss says he is unhappy with your work.
The belief: Something is wrong with me.

Albert explains how and why we feel bad in such events, and how we can react healthier to those situations. I like the general idea of this book. You can change the way you feel by changing how you react to people, situations, events.

While many other psychologists/authors, such as David Burns in his “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy,” use cognitive methods, Albert shows how to use many of them far more effectively than most others. The point of the author is to make you understand these irrational beliefs and dispute them using various methods. Albert also includes emotive and behavioral tools, many of which he created years ago and that his non-for-profit institute has used successfully for decades.

He was one of the most popular psychotherapists in the history. Elliss’ theories are being read at many different schools.