Rational and Irrational Beliefs

Daniel David, PhD is Aaron T. Beck Professor of Clinical Cognitive Sciences and Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Babe?-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is also an adjunct professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Steven Jay Lynn, PhD, ABPP is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Clinic at Binghamton University. He was cited as one of the "Top Producers of Scholarly Publications in Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Programs," and has received distinguished professional and scientific contribution awards from the American Psychological Association. Albert Ellis, PhD was President Emeritus of the Albert Ellis Institute at the time of his death in 2007. An originator of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the father of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy, Ellis was one of the most influential psychotherapists of all time.

• PART I: FOUNDATIONS ; 1. Rational and Irrational Beliefs: A Conceptual and Historical Perspective, Albert Ellis, Daniel David, and Steven Jay Lynn ; 2. Rationality and Rational Psychotherapy: The Heart of REBT, Arthur Still ; 3. Social and Cultural Aspects of Rational and Irrational Beliefs: A brief re-conceptualization, Daniel David and Raymond DiGiuseppe ; 4. Rational and Irrational Beliefs from an Evolutionary Perspective, David Sloan Wilson ; PART II: RATIONAL AND IRRATIONAL BELIEFS: HUMAN EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES ; 5. Rational and Irrational Beliefs in Human Feelings and Psychophysiology, Daniel David and Duncan Cramer ; 6. The Behavioral Consequences of Irrational Beliefs, Aurora Szentagotai and Jason Jones ; PART III: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS ; 7. The Assessment of Irrational and Rational Beliefs, Bianca Macavei and James McMahon ; 8. Rational and Irrational Beliefs and Psychopathology, Christopher M. Browne, Thomas Dowd, and Arthur Freeman ; 9. Rational and irrational beliefs. Implication for clinical conceptualization and practice in psychotherapy, Daniel David, Arthur Freeman, and Raymond DiGiuseppe ; 10. Mindfulness and Irrational Beliefs, David Mellinger ; 11. Rational and Irrational Beliefs in Primary Prevention and Mental Health, Donald A. Caserta, Thomas Dowd, Daniel David, and Albert Ellis ; Part IV: PHYSICAL HEALTH AND PAIN ; 12. Irrational and rational beliefs and physical health, Julie Schnur, Guy Montgomery, and Daniel David ; 13. Coping and Catastrophic Thinking: The Experience and Treatment of Chronic , Dawn M. Ehde and Mark P. Jensen ; PART V: JUDGMENT ERRORS AND POPULAR MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ; 14. Irrational Beliefs Stemming from Judgment Errors: Cognitive Limitations, Biases, and Experiential Learning, John Ruscio ; 15. The Five Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Implications for Psychotherapy, Scott Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, and Barry Beyerstein ; PART VI - A LOOK TO THE FUTURE ; 16. A Summary and a New Research Agenda for Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Daniel David and Steven Jay Lynn ; Index

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