Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (Psychology)

This was my first book by Albert Ellis. I am planning on reading ALL of his books. Hands down BEST BOOK EVER. His style is amazing, down to earth, plain and simple. This is what I needed. Thank you Albert Ellis for changing my life. update: 10/16/2013 While my above review still stands, I finally found my cure for all the emotional and physical problems and I feel like a new person, I feel the way I should naturally feel.After more stress, soul searching and 1000 more books read I was found to have very low levels of magnesium, iron, vit D and vit B12. I just started the supplements a few days ago and I already feel like a normal person again. Please look into mineral and vitamin deficiencies before you give up or spend money on books on end with wise words but no actual cure for a "sick"person. It changed my life and I will never go without taking my supplements. Thank you

I have worked within the Rational Emotive Therapy theory for sometime. I am now at the point that I am teaching this to employees to build resilience into the work place. The Theory is simple enough that everybody can understand why it is popular and used often technique. This book helps to breakdown and give examples that everyday person can use. The big buzz these days is resilience and teaching coping skills so that the employee will maintain their value and not breakdown to the point of having large issues but be able to rationalize them down before they get big. This book peels back the layers of skills therapist use to teach clients how to use effective theoretical ideas like catastrophizing to rational feelings they are having to become less destructive and more manageable. Taking things from this book utilizing them in the ABC framework will prove wonders in the workplace for those that are looking to improve Human Resource involvement and Employee Assistance Programs throughout corporate America. It has also proved helpful in public service employees as well.

Albert Ellis is a super psychologist who can help those with all kinds of hangups and issues. He is not for the seriously ill patients; he's more for the neurotic. His main technique is to have you, the patient, play the role of someone with whom he/she has a problem (parent, spouse, boss) so you can see yourself more objectively. In this way, it's like "psychodrama." This book is more for the therapist than the patient, but an experienced person with a background in psychology (from school, reading or treatment) can get a lot out of it. Like Dr. Ellis always said to the people in distress, "Stop "awfulizing!"' Unless everyone agrees that something is awful -- like a diagnosis of stage 4 cancer or a death in the family -- few things in life are really "awful."

A very thorough introduction of REBT and how it’s used with patients, and how it can be used by counselors. The only thing that I found a little disconcerting was that it appears Albert Ellis had, at this time, drank too much from the postmodernist, “punchbowl” and had then incorporated too much of that thinking into his approach to therapy. However, all in all, a very good book.

Just a very interesting book. Very different approach to accepting yourself. This is my second purchase of this book, this was a gift to my friend.

Albert Ellis' books can really help you change your views of yourself and the world and lead much happier life. This book is good, and I recommend it to people interested in REBT. BUT, there are huge issues with the Kindle edition! There are misspellings and some pages are just scanned as images. If you want to buy this book, check the paper edition - I haven't seen it, but hope it's in better shape than this one. I've decided to give this book 3 stars, since the content is great, but the formatting was really annoying at times.

the more I read about this subject from this man and his institute, the more open my mind becomes to the fact that he knows what he speaks of, and holy cow, is he talking about me

The book is a quick read and a very handy resource for REBT.

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Nach einer Bilderbuchkarriere habe ich mit Anfang 30 eine schlechte Phase im Leben durchgemacht. Antriebslosigkeit und Müdigkeit haben mich sehr gequält. In diesem Buch habe ich gewisse Antworten gefunden. Empfehle es jedem der neuen Schwung braucht.

Really wonderful book by the greatest psychologist and super super humanitarian, Dr. Albert Ellis. Easy to follow techniques to make profound and lasting changes

En este libro Ellis hace una recopilacion de toda la experiencia acumulada durante decadas. Por lo mismo no es un libro introductorio al tema, sin embargo es de lo mejor

collection of case histories for me