Three approaches to psychotherapy I, Part 3 Albert Ellis (rational-emotive therapy)

1965 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rational Emotive Therapy ◽  
Albert Ellis ◽  
Rational Emotive

scholarly journals Rational Emotive Therapy Workshop

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 680-681
Author(s):  
Hugh Freeman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Rational Emotive Therapy ◽  
Albert Ellis ◽  
Rational Emotive

Last year, I was very fortunate to be able to attend a workshop at Sheffield University on Rational Emotive Therapy – fortunate because Dr Albert Ellis of New York, who conducted it and who founded RET, is surely one of the most remarkable figures on the international scene in psychiatry. His presentation is frankly dramatic, but he insists that far from being undesirable, this quality may be essential in transmitting a therapeutic message to the patient.

scholarly journals Rational emotive behaviour therapy restated

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 623-624
Author(s):  
John Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Rational Emotive Therapy ◽  
Albert Ellis ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Rational Emotive ◽  
Cognitive Therapies

During the 1970s the names Fritz Perls, Carl Rogers and Albert Ellis were all prominent, as were their schools of Gestalt, client centred and rational emotive therapies. Of these three celebrities only Albert Ellis continues to teach and extol the superiority of his particular therapy. This is not just because he has outlived his contemporaries but also because, as he rightly states on his recent European tour, rational emotive therapy is a legitimate challenge and competitor to the present schools of cognitive therapies of Beck, Gelder and others. To emphasise this point, Ellis commences his day-long one-man workshop by announcing that rational emotive therapy has been renamed rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT).

On the Compatibility of Rational-Emotive Therapy and Judeo-Christian Philosophy: A Focus on Clinical Strategies

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. DiGiuseppe ◽  
Mitchell W. Robin ◽  
Windy Dryden
Keyword(s):  
Irrational Beliefs ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Rational Emotive Therapy ◽  
Albert Ellis ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Beliefs ◽  
The Core ◽  
Clinical Strategies ◽  
Rational Emotive

Because of the personal religious and philosophical beliefs of Albert Ellis, Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) is often perceived as inappropriate for clients with strong religious beliefs. Three of the major irrational thought processes hypothesized by RET to be at the core of psychopathology are shown to also be inconsistent with Judeo-Christian philosophy. Therefore, it is postulated that disputing irrational beliefs and establishing more rational philosophies is also consistent with Judeo-Christian philosophy. Specific clinical strategies are suggested for working with religious clients in changing these three irrational beliefs.

Psychotherapeutic Virtues and the Grammar of Faith

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
New Method ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Rational Emotive Therapy ◽  
Albert Ellis ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Secular Theory ◽  
Rational Emotive ◽  
Self Acceptance

A new method for integrating secular psychotherapies into Christian practice, “the virtues approach,” is presented, which promises more fine-grained assessment of continuities and discontinuities between Christian theory and practice and secular theory and practice, and more hope of a richly and distinctively Christian psychotherapy. Albert Ellis’ therapy is examined as a test case. Three Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) virtues–-equanimity, self-acceptance, and a sense of humor–-are compared grammatically (structurally) with their Christian counterparts, and suggestions are made about consequences for Christian RET.

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