Life
On September 27, 1913 Albert Ellis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then moved to New York City. His parents, whom he had a distant emotional relationship with, divorced when he was 12 years old. Observing them taught him much about understanding others around him. In 1934, he went to the City University of New York and received a bachelor degree in business administration but learned that this was not for him. Albert enjoyed writing and began writing fiction novels but they were not successful, so he began writing nonfiction about human sexuality. As he collected more information for his book his friends began to ask him for advice. This lead to him learn that he enjoyed counseling and writing. So in 1942 he attended …show more content…
He was taught the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, and began to teach at Rutgers University. Albert went on to teach at New York University and was the senior clinical psychologist at the Northern New Jersey Mental Hygiene Clinic.( http://albertellis.org/about-albert-ellis-phd/ ) Even with much influence from Alfred Adler, Karen Horney and Erich Fromm, Ellis was losing faith in psychoanalysis. He didn’t feel that his patients were improving fast enough and did not like the passive approach. He began to develop a therapy he believed would be more effective, using his own experiences, research, and philosophy based on writings of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, to create something …show more content…
According to Epictetus, “people are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” (Print) Epictetus was one of the ancient philosophers who inspired Ellis. Based on this statement REBT required that therapists help clients understand that this philosophy contains that the patient’s beliefs lead to the patient’s emotional pain. This created the theory for the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which was to directly address a problematic belief that leads to self-defeating behavior. REBT required actively working to change the self-defeating beliefs and behaviors and helping patients to recognize what could rationally help them overcome this. To help teach this psychological approach Ellis developed the A-B-C Theory of Personality. The A stands for the significant action that was the root of the cause. The B is the belief that this action was poor. The C is the consequential emotion that stem for this action and belief. Thinking and emotion are the cause and effect to how we view the world, so Ellis wanted his patients to see that if they really thought about what was happening and how it could be cured they could change the outcome. Patients can talk themselves in or out of situations if they have the correct mind set and this is what
On September 27, 1913 Albert Ellis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then moved to New York City. His parents, whom he had a distant emotional relationship with, divorced when he was 12 years old. Observing them taught him much about understanding others around him. In 1934, he went to the City University of New York and received a bachelor degree in business administration but learned that this was not for him. Albert enjoyed writing and began writing fiction novels but they were not successful, so he began writing nonfiction about human sexuality. As he collected more information for his book his friends began to ask him for advice. This lead to him learn that he enjoyed counseling and writing. So in 1942 he attended …show more content…
He was taught the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, and began to teach at Rutgers University. Albert went on to teach at New York University and was the senior clinical psychologist at the Northern New Jersey Mental Hygiene Clinic.( http://albertellis.org/about-albert-ellis-phd/ ) Even with much influence from Alfred Adler, Karen Horney and Erich Fromm, Ellis was losing faith in psychoanalysis. He didn’t feel that his patients were improving fast enough and did not like the passive approach. He began to develop a therapy he believed would be more effective, using his own experiences, research, and philosophy based on writings of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, to create something …show more content…
According to Epictetus, “people are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” (Print) Epictetus was one of the ancient philosophers who inspired Ellis. Based on this statement REBT required that therapists help clients understand that this philosophy contains that the patient’s beliefs lead to the patient’s emotional pain. This created the theory for the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which was to directly address a problematic belief that leads to self-defeating behavior. REBT required actively working to change the self-defeating beliefs and behaviors and helping patients to recognize what could rationally help them overcome this. To help teach this psychological approach Ellis developed the A-B-C Theory of Personality. The A stands for the significant action that was the root of the cause. The B is the belief that this action was poor. The C is the consequential emotion that stem for this action and belief. Thinking and emotion are the cause and effect to how we view the world, so Ellis wanted his patients to see that if they really thought about what was happening and how it could be cured they could change the outcome. Patients can talk themselves in or out of situations if they have the correct mind set and this is what