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Summary: Look to Another Ellis Book for Sound Advice
Review: Ellis, the author, is quite different from Ellis, the counselor. In videos, Ellis was arrogant, offensive, foul-mouthed, insensitive, and down-right rude. He uses the F word, calls his clients stupid, and braggs of his own moral discretions. In A New Guide to Rational Living, Ellis is professional and helpful. Apparently, Ellis benefits from a good editor.
It's been a long time since the bestselling Guide to Rational Living. On a whim, I bought this new book. OMG! Ellis is outrageous! As I forced myself to read chapter after chapter, I kept wondering: Does Ellis have an editor? Has someone ever advised him that he can come across like a flaming A**? Is Ellis surely comfortable sharing so many of his personal issues?
For example, Ellis brags, yes brags, about his sexual disorder (sneaking up to women on subways to press his genitals against them). He talks of offending some women, but he still managed to succumb to a near daily lifestyle of criminal behavior for years. He doesn't regret it. He rationalizes it as an innocent sexual lifestyle. Lucky for him, he apparently was not arrested.
If that's not enough, he openly admits to extramarital affairs with his first ex-wife for years and shares just how much he hates his parents and many other people who have evidently wreaked havoc on his ego. It appears that REBT, to Ellis, is an excellent way to make inappropriate lifestyle choices and then justify them. Who cares if your choices hurt others?
Among other revelations, Ellis is an open-marriage advocate and brags that it worked to help him stay in a frustrating relationship with a borderline girlfriend and wife. Ellis is also using REBT to get over his anger at Dyer and Beck, two successful psychologists, because he believes he is the true founder of cognitive therapy. He critizes his ex-wives, criticizes the people he has worked with, and criticizes many in his profession using REBT as a crutch, not a true means of personal growth. He is indeed an angry man, but he is always right.
If you are truly intersted in applying REBT for your own personal growth, please read A New Guide to Rational Living or another bestseller that avoids discussions of Ellis' personal life. Perhaps the co-author he worked with in the bestselling Guide helped him stay away from insensitive, bizarre and inappropriate self-reflections long-enough to write at least one awesome book. As far as his new book, I couldn't safely recommend this book to anyone who seriously wants to grow. If anything, it makes for an interesting read if you enjoy peering into the diaries of narcissistic, likely borderline adults.
That's just my opinion...
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Summary: REBT - It Works!
Review: It was hard to put down the latest book by Dr. Albert Ellis, "REBT: It Works for Me It Can Work for You." I believe that this book is one of the best books that Dr. Ellis has written. I work as a therapist and have read many of his books over the years -- using his theory to help both my clients and myself.This book offers both engaging insight into many aspects of Dr. Ellis' personal life and how he used REBT to help him cope with difficulties and challenges; as well as incredibly useful ideas and procedures for people going through disability due to illness or accident and for their helpers.
He used these procedures himself to help him get through a life-threatening time in 2003. This book will greatly benefit both laypersons and therapists.
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Summary: REBT - It Works!
Review: It was hard to put down the latest book by Dr. Albert Ellis, "REBT: It Works for Me It Can Work for You." I believe that this book is one of the best books that Dr. Ellis has written. I work as a therapist and have read many of his books over the years -- using his theory to help both my clients and myself. This book offers both engaging insight into many aspects of Dr. Ellis' personal life and how he used REBT to help him cope with difficulties and challenges; as well as incredibly useful ideas and procedures for people going through disability due to illness or accident and for their helpers.
He used these procedures himself to help him get through a life-threatening time in 2003. This book will greatly benefit both laypersons and therapists.
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