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Albert Ellis

出生: September 27, 1913 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who pioneered Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, a foundation of modern cognitive-behavioral therapy. His books include A Guide to Rational Living and How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything—Yes, Anything!. He wrote more than 75 books and influenced psychotherapy worldwide.

传记与作者历程

Albert Ellis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 27, 1913, and grew up largely in New York City, where an often difficult childhood and repeated hospital stays encouraged habits of self-reliance and reflection. He first studied business at the City College of New York, graduating in 1934, and spent several years trying to build a career in business and writing before turning decisively toward psychology. He later earned graduate degrees at Columbia University, including a doctorate in clinical psychology, entering the field at a time when psychoanalysis was the dominant model. That early training gave him technical grounding, but it also set up the central break that would define his career.

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People generally have a set of goals, values, or desires
-Emotional Disturbance and Its Treatment in a Nutshell
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Humans, biologically and by social learning, are goal-seeking animals and their fundamental goals normally are to survive, to be relatively free from pain, and to be reasonably satisfied or content
-Emotional Disturbance and Its Treatment in a Nutshell
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These rational beliefs will mainly create healthy emotional consequences, such as appropriate feelings of disappointment, sorrow, regret and frustration
-Emotional Disturbance and Its Treatment in a Nutshell
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I’d prefer to succeed and be lovable, but I don’t have to do so!
-Emotional Disturbance and Its Treatment in a Nutshell
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Decide to define yourself as a “good” or “worthwhile” person just because you exist, just because you are alive, just because you are human. For no other reason or condition!
-Showing People They Are Not Worthless Individuals
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It would be philosophically more elegant, I explain to people, if they would not evaluate their self at all but merely accept its existence while only evaluating their performances
-Showing People They Are Not Worthless Individuals
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Feelings of worthlessness are not worth it
-Showing People They Are Not Worthless Individuals
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Most human disturbance is a form of demandingness
-Unhealthy Love: Its Causes and Treatment
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If the individual’s goals, aims, and purposes about loving and being loved are wishes, that is fine and healthy
-Unhealthy Love: Its Causes and Treatment
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Only you can directly upset yourself
-Unhealthy Love: Its Causes and Treatment

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"Albert Ellis is a stoic philosopher with a sailor's mouth"

Psychology Today

"Albert Ellis, 93; psychology icon delivered his advice in blunt fashion"

Los Angeles Times

"Psychotherapist Albert Ellis, whose methods made him one of modern psychology's most influential practitioners, has died in New York at age 93"

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The Washington Post

"His name is Albert Ellis, and, in case you didn't know, he is the founder of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy, or REBT"

The New Yorker

"Shyness was among the many problems successfully treated by the American psychotherapist Albert Ellis, who has died aged 93"

The Guardian

"No-nonsense therapist Albert Ellis preached get over it, get on with it"

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