艾里斯:合理情绪疗法创始人,虽然去年就去世了,但是重新阅读他的理论觉得他人活在人间:对人的自我保护,自我成长非常有利的技术,非常实用R.E.B.T.
Psychology Giant Albert Ellis Dies
He came to psychology almost by happenstance, after friends began turning to him for guidance. But Albert Ellis would become one of the most important figures in modern psychology, once ranked by his peers as more influential than Sigmund Freud.
Ellis, who helped establish cognitive behavior therapy, died Tuesday from kidney and heart failure after a long illness, said his wife, Debbie Joffe Ellis. He was 93.
“He helped countless people, and a large number of people he helped now help other people,” his wife said. “And in that, there’s no question that he has influenced the world in an intensely positive way. In this crazy, violent world, he was a compass for truth.”
In the 1950s, Ellis invented what he called rational emotive behavior therapy, or R.E.B.T., which stresses that patients can improve their lives by taking control of self-defeating thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
“We all owe a great debt to Dr. Ellis,” said Robert O’Connell, executive director of the ...[
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2008-04-21 21:32:54
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