A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis, Robert A. Harper, Melvin Powers (Foreword by)

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  • Publisher: Wilshire Book Company
  • Pub. Date: January 1997
  • ISBN-13: 9780879800420
  • Sales Rank: 17,668
  • 283pp
  • Edition Description: Older Edition
  • Edition Number: 3
 
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If you have the rigorous honesty necessary to conduct self-analysis, this book can be the most important one you have read. For although it makes no promises, it can help you more than all the other self-help books put together. Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy can teach any intelligent person how to stop feeling miserable about practically anything. Direct, get-to-the-heart-of-the-problem methods teach you what you often do to needlessly upset yourself and what you can do, instead, to make yourself emotionally stronger. These practical, proven methods of changing your self-defeating emotions and behaviors reflect the authors' vast experience as therapists and as teachers of therapists from all over the world, and have been backed by literally hundreds of research studies. A Guide to Rational Living provides much sought-after answers for individuals with problems, and it can help everyone to feel better about themselves and to deal with their lives more effectively.

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A Guide to Rational Livingby Anonymous

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December 14, 2007: After my divorce I found myself in a state chaos. I found it difficult to put the pieces back to together and go with my life, but one night I came to the realization that I was following a self defeating pattern for so many years that I believe it was normal behavior. I subjected everyone around to complete irrational behavior and would blame the world when things fell apart in relationship and in other important aspects of my life until I did some research on behavior. I came across your usual psychological Mumbo Jumbo, but when I read an article on REBT I was on my way to a life changing experience. I purchased 'A Guide to Rational Living' and it was as if someone turned on the light switch and I could finally see how my behavior was destroying everything around me. I read this book so many times that I felt I had the true secret to happiness in my hands and had to share it with everyone I knew. I've heard people say that they've had life altering experiences, but not until I implemented REBT into my life could I appreciate such an idea. Please, please, please get this book and keep with you at all times. I assure you it will be the most important book you have ever read.

A Guide to Rational Livingby Anonymous

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June 01, 2006: This book is the first book the great psychologist Albert Ellis wrote on Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy ( REBT - later known as 'cognitive therapy'). I also think it is one of the best. REBT is built on th idea that our thoughts cause our emotions and influence our behaviors. Ellis believes that people can change their emotions as well as their behaviors by disputing their irrational thoughts with facts and reason. In this book he goes through what he believes are the top 10 irrational ideas that cause most people to experience unpleasant emotions needlessly. Ellis is not known for being a great writer, but in this book he pulls it together. The tone is direct as well as clear, free of psychobabble, and you never doubt that you are being addressed by one of the great psychological minds of the 20th century. Beware, there are multiple editions of this book. To get the latest edition with the most content make sure you have the 3rd 1975 printing(august). It should have 23 chapters. Earlier editions do not.


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