Albert Ellis Live!

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach.  He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT.He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.Albert Ellis, Ph.D., was the intellectual founder of all clinical approaches that now fall under the rubric of cognitive behavior therapy, and he is generally regarded as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. His Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is now practiced and taught throughout the world, along with the numerous similar therapies that it spawned. Dr. Ellis wrote 70 books and more than 600 journal articles and monographs. At the Albert Ellis Institute, which he founded and managed for more than half a century, he personally trained or supervised thousands of clinicians. As a practicing psychologist, he personally helped more than 10,000 people lead less painful and more productive lives. Dr. Ellis received dozens of awards from organizations like the American Psychological Association and American Counseling Association for his tireless work in advancing psychology, counseling, and social work. When he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1947, he had already established himself as the most renowned sex therapist in the first half of the 20th century, and he then went on to revolutionize the field of clinical psychology. Dr. Ellis died July 24, 2007, while this book was in the final stages of preparation.

• Preface - Windy DrydenPreface - Albert EllisRational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and Albert Ellis′s Use of Demonstration SessionsEllis′s Interview with FionaCommentary on Ellis′s Interview with FionaEllis′s Interview with LindaCommentary on Ellis′s Interview with LindaEllis′s Interview with LucyCommentary on Ellis′s Interview with LucyEllis′s Interview with PeterCommentary on Ellis′s Interview with PeterEllis′s Interview with YvonneCommentary on Ellis′s Interview with Yvonne

`A remarkably useful book for the practitioners of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and other kinds of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Very clearly and intensively covers what effective therapeutic change is and the therapist′s and the client′s role in following it and in fighting against relapsing. Dryden′s and Neenan′s book includes many important points that are often omitted from REBT and other therapies. Definitive and thoroughgoing!′ - Albert Ellis, President of Albert Ellis Institute