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Albert Ellis
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Albert Ellis (1913 to 2007) was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in the 1950s, arguing that psychological distress comes from irrational beliefs about events rather than the events themselves, and that disputing those beliefs directly changes how a person feels and acts. REBT is widely credited as a direct forerunner of cognitive behavioral therapy.
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BirthplacePittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 1 Death PlaceNew York City, New York, United States 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFounded Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the therapy that first treated a client irrational beliefs as the direct object of change, prefiguring the cognitive behavioral therapy movement. 1 Notable WorkReason and Emotion in Psychotherapy (1962) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies.
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