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.

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.

Rational-Emotive Approaches to Peace

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Rational Emotive Therapy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Rational Emotive ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Peace And War ◽  
Behavioral Methods

Psychotherapy supposedly influences people’s values and actions and directly and indirectly affects their attitudes toward peace and war. This paper suggests that psychotherapy in general, and rational-emotive therapy (RET) in particular can directly help clients and their close associates, as well as indirectly help many members of the public, to acquire attitudes and behaviors to make them more peaceful toward themselves, toward their families and neighbors, and ultimately toward different ethnic, political, and foreign groups. RET has a specific theory and practice regarding how people inevitably have differences and disagreements and how, mainly by demanding that others absolutely must see how right they are and commanding that they have to agree with them, they frequently and needlessly construct self-defeating and society-sabotaging arguments and fights about their disagreements. A number of RET cognitive, emotive, and behavioral methods of achieving peaceful relationships are presented in this article.

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).

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