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Posted in Education, Psychology, Therapy on Apr 9th, 2010
How to Think and Intervene Like an REBT Therapist
Windy Dryden
Routledge 2009
ISBN 978-0-415-48795-5 (pbk) £18.99
I liked this book a lot, partly because it is straightforward and ‘does what is says on the tin’. As you would expect from arguably the UK’s most authoritative REBT practitioner and teacher, the book, like an ideal REBT session, is [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on May 7th, 2009
Are you a seagull?
Albert Ellis, a cognitive therapist, cited by the American Psychological Association in 2003 as the second most influential psychologist in the twentieth century, used to argue that most people had strong tendencies to be like seagulls. As a psychotherapist he was quite unusual in his methods and often did and said seemingly [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Psychology, Therapy on Nov 21st, 2007
What’s your worst nightmare? I daren’t tell you mine. It’s too embarrassing and too scary!
Sometimes we do spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about what might happen, and while some of that is understandable and natural, for some of us there comes a point where it tips over the edge and becomes [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Aug 11th, 2007
Are you a seagull?
Albert Ellis, a cognitive therapist, cited by the American Psychological Association in 2003 as the second most influential psychologist in the twentieth century, used to argue that most people had strong tendencies to be like seagulls. As a psychotherapist he was quite unusual in his methods and often did and said [...]
Posted in Existential, Humanity, Therapy on Aug 3rd, 2007
I learned today that Albert Ellis (or Big Al as I and a few friends fondly referred to him) is dead. Apparently he died on 24 July, 2007, of natural causes. He was 93. I feel both relieved about, and saddened by, his passing. To be perfectly honest, I felt that in his latter years [...]
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