Ask Albert Ellis?: Straight Answers and Sound Advice from America's Best-Known Psychologist

164 Pages·2003·4.964 MB·English

by  Albert Ellis

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Ask Albert Ellis

Straight Answers and Sound Advice from
America's Best-Known Psychologist
Albert Ellis, Ph.D.
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Copyright © 2003
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ellis, Albert.
Ask Albert Ellis : straight answers and sound advice from America's
best known psychologist / Albert Ellis,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-886230-51-X (alk. paper)
1. Rational-emotive psychotherapy-Miscellanea. 2. Ellis, Albert.
I. Title.
RC489.R3E425 2003
616.89T4—dc21
2003047766
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To Debbie Joffe, who was enormously helpful in
putting together this book and to the many people
who sent me the questions that I answered in the book.
Many Thanks!
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Foreword ix
I. Ask Albert Ellis... 1
“About Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy” (REBT)
II. Ask Albert Ellis... 13
“About Living a More Rational and Healthy Life”
Answers for the Rest of Us
III. Ask Albert Ellis... 79
“About Doing REBT”
Answers for Therapists
Bibliography 133
Index 137
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