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Albert Ellis Biography

Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded and was the President of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute for decades. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and one of the founders of cognitive-behavioral therapies.

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The goal of all life is to have a ball.

Ball, Balls, Goal, Life, Life Is

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

Die, Dies, Hope, Saddles, Seat, Seats

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

Decide, Destiny, Happiness, Ones, Problems, Responsibility

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Encouragement, Growth, Musts, Three, Treat, World

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

According, Albert, Aspect, Teaching, Work, World

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Acceptance, Keys, Serenity, Thoroughgoing, Key

Stop shoulding on yourself

Shoulding, Stop

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Abuse, Choice, Choices, Sexually, Though

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Years, Listening, Six, Wrote, Analysts

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Age, Approaching, Eclectic Style, Public Speaking, Women

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

Depression, Inspirational, People, Upset, Upsetness

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

Deeper, Foolishly, Form, Practiced, Therapy, Thought

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

Assessment, Positive Thinking, Problem, Rectifying, Thinking, Views

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

Decision, Food, Hands, Mouth, Pick

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

Responsibility, Destiny, Emotional, Creator, Ruler

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

Bloodshed, Fighting, Genocide, Religious, Violence, War

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

Thinking, Experts, Efficiency, Expert, Therapist, Inefficiency

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

Act, Blame, Condemn, Hate, Nastily, People

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

Feelings, Healthy, Self, Thinking, Thoughts, Use

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

Chance, Emotionally, Facts, Horrible, Uncertain, World

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