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About Albert Ellis

  • Born: September 27, 1913
  • Died: July 24, 2007
  • Occupation: Psychologist
    • I thought foolishly that freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so i was trained in it and practiced it.
    Form Deeper Therapy
    I'm very happy. i like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to st. albert.
    Teaching Around The World Aspect
    I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. so i finally quit after practicing it for six years.
    Years Listening Six
    I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in january 1955; later i used the term "rational emotive." now i call myself a "rational emotive behavior therapist." but from the start, i always included philosophic techniques as well as experiential, emotional and behavioral techniques.
    Emotional Technique January
    I regret that i've been so busy with clinical work that i haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.
    Regret Outcomes Able
    Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and i think i have a gene for efficiency. had i not been a therapist, i would have been an efficiency expert.
    Thinking Experts Efficiency
    I'm very happy. i like my work and i like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to st. albert - i like that. and seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books.
    Teaching Book Writing
    I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the united states, but i'm also probably the most hated one.
    United States Psychologist Hated
    As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, i wasn't even upset about hitler. i was willing to go to war to knock him off, but i didn't hate him. i hated what he was doing.
    Hate Philosophy War
    I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.
    Behavior Individual Integrated
    When i was 16 i started keeping a diary in which i recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. i didn't insist that they were wrong, that i was right and i had to prevail. i just agreed and disagreed with them. i thought there was a high degree of probability that i was right and some other thinkers were wrong. but i wasn't positive about it.
    Degrees Diaries Philosopher
    If i had been a member of the academic establishment, i could have done other experiments.
    Done Academic Members
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