Albert Ellis, the renowned creator of one of the most successful
forms of psychotherapy -- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
-- offers this candid self-assessment, which reveals how he
overcame his own mental and physical problems using the techniques
of REBT. Part memoir and part self-help guide, this very personal
story traces the private struggles that Ellis faced from early
childhood to well into his adult life. Whether you are already
familiar with Ellis's many best-selling psychology books or are
discovering his work for the first time, you will gain many
insights into how to deal with your problems by seeing how Ellis
learned to cope with his own serious challenges.
In his early life, Ellis was faced with a major physical
disability, chronic nephritis, which plagued him from age five to
nine and led to hospitalization. This experience then caused the
emotional reaction of separation anxiety. At this time he also
suffered from severe, migraine-like headaches, which persisted into
his forties. Later in life, he realized that some of his emotional
upset was the result of initially taking parental neglect too
seriously. Active and energetic by nature, he gradually learned
that the best way to cope with any problem, physical or emotional,
was to stop "catastrophizing" and to do something to correct
it.
As Ellis points out in all of his work, when faced with adversity,
we must realize that we have a real choice, either to think
rationally about the problem or to react irrationally. The first
choice leads to healthy consequences--normal emotions such as
sorrow, regret, frustration, or annoyance, which are justifiable
reactions to troubling situations. The second choice leads to the
unhealthy consequences of anxiety, depression, rage, and low
self-esteem. When we recognize irrational beliefs as such, we must
then use our reason to dispute their validity. Ellis goes on to
describe how these techniques helped him to cope with many other
adult emotional problems, including failure in love affairs, shame,
anger, distress over his parents' divorce, stress from others'
reactions to his atheistic convictions, and upset due to his
attitudes about academic and professional setbacks.
Honest and unflinching yet always positive and forward-looking,
Ellis demonstrates how to gain and grow from trying experiences
through rational thinking.
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