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by ELLIS, ALBERTELLIS, DEBBIE JOFFEFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-10-30
Publisher(s): Prometheus Books
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Summary
Albert Ellis, the renowned creator of one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy -- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) -- tells all in this candid autobiography.
Author Biography
Albert Ellis, PHD, authored more than eighty books, including many popular bestsellers, and was president of the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He practiced psychotherapy, marriage and family counseling, and sex therapy for over sixty years. Other books by Albert Ellis available from Prometheus Books include The Myth of Self-Esteem; The Road to Tolerance; Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: It Works for Me---It Can Work for You; Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy; and (with Raymond J. Yeager) Why Some Therapies Don't Work: The Dangers of Transpersonal Psychology.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. 11 |
| Introduction: On Writing an Impossible Memoir | p. 13 |
| Chronology: The Sidewalks of Pittsburgh and New York | p. 23 |
| Coping with Emotional Problems: My Neglectful Father and My Low Frustration Tolerance | p. 40 |
| My Sex and Love Life: My First Great Love (Besides Myself) | p. 45 |
| Critique of Chapter 1 | p. 60 |
| Chronology: My First Hospitalization | p. 63 |
| Coping with Emotional Problems: My Compulsive Rhyming | p. 79 |
| My Sex and Love Life: My Second Great Love | p. 84 |
| Critique of Chapter 2 | p. 108 |
| Chronology: Other Childhood Ailments | p. 116 |
| Coping with Emotional Problems: Back to My Neglectful Parents and My Low Frustration Tolerance | p. 140 |
| My Sex and Love Life: My Propensity for La Grande Passion | p. 148 |
| Critique of Chapter 3 | p. 152 |
| Chronology: More Early Frustrations | p. 163 |
| Coping with Emotional Problems: Still More of My Low Frustration Tolerance and My Anxiety | p. 198 |
| My Sex and Love Life: My Sex and Love Life Really Gets Going Full Blast | p. 218 |
| Critique of Chapter 4 | p. 239 |
| Chronology: The Good Years from Eight to Fifteen, and Thenà | p. 253 |
| Coping with Emotional Problems: Overcoming My Social Phobias and Coping with My Early Sexual Frustrations and Irregularities | p. 276 |
| My Sex and Love Life: My Love Life with Robin, Rhoda, and Shirley | p. 305 |
| Critique of Chapter 5 | p. 323 |
| 1934 to 1937 and My Relationship with Karyl Corper | p. 335 |
| Was I an Irresponsible Parent? | p. 389 |
| My Tremendous Affair with Gertrude Birnbaum | p. 396 |
| Important Influences | p. 435 |
| My Relationships | p. 505 |
| The Second-Worst Year of My Life-And How I Coped with It | p. 524 |
| A Better Year | p. 540 |
| The Bogus Albert Ellis Institute | p. 545 |
| The Final Chapter by Debbie Joffe Ellis | p. 560 |
| Epilogue: What Now? | p. 577 |
| Final Letter | p. 579 |
| Letter from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg | p. 581 |
| Bibliography | p. 583 |
| Index | p. 633 |
| About the Authors | p. 667 |
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