The Myth of Self-Esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever by Albert Ellis

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What exactly is self-esteem? Most people, as well as many psychologists and educators, believe we need it, that it's good for our emotional well-being, and that it makes us more successful. World-renowned psychologist Albert Ellis says NO, it's all a myth.

According to Ellis, self-esteem is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to humans. Self-esteem results in each of us praising ourselves when others approve what we do. But we also damn ourselves when we don't do well enough and others disapprove of us. What we need more than self-esteem, Ellis maintains, is self-acceptance!

In The Myth of Self-Esteem, Ellis provides a lively and insightful explanation of self-esteem and self-acceptance, examining the thinking of great religious teachers, philosophers, and psychologists, including Lao Tsu, Jesus, Benedict de Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Dalai Lama, among others. Ellis explains how to use Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy to achieve unconditional self-acceptance, offering exercises and tools for achieving unconditional acceptance of ourselves and others - and life.

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