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Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis

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Description for Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis Paperback. Albert Ellis was writing about personal happiness long before the formal discipline of positive psychology was founded. This book describes his work in helping people to eliminate misery and obtain happiness. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
RATIONALITY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

“This book is a labor of love! Michael Bernard has painstakingly transcribed a number of Albert Ellis’s therapy and demonstration sessions as well as a selection of his lectures and has used this material to excellent effect to make Dr Ellis’s views on psychological health and happiness come alive. A gem of a book on a gem of a man by a gem of an author.”
Professor Windy Dryden, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

“Michael Bernard’s book reveals the importance of ‘rationality’ as a positive faculty of mind that enables people to strengthen ... Read more

Albert Ellis, one of the world’s most influential psychologists, founded Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in the 1950s. Over the years, this pioneering form of cognitive behavior therapy has advanced the emotional well-being of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Yet while Ellis’s innovative approaches for helping people with emotional difficulties are well known, his views on the pursuit of personal happiness – which have also influenced generations of people both with and without such problems – are far more elusive. Ellis’s powerful arguments in favor of the rational pursuit of happiness are set out for the very first time in this book.

Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness presents Ellis’s views on how the principles of rational living can be used by anyone to achieve lifelong happiness. Transcripts of private counseling sessions and public forums reveal the great power of rationality and the self-defeating nature of irrationality. Drawing on 50 years of Ellis’s writing, Michael Bernard shows how the emotional misery that arises from irrational thinking of the human psyche can obstruct our innate potential for self-actualization and happiness. In doing so, he firmly establishes Ellis as a pioneer of positive psychology and a human being whose superior intellect and years of public education and psychotherapy experience offer genuine insights into the eternal question of what makes for a happy life.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780470683118
SKU
V9780470683118
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About Michael E. Bernard
Michael E. Bernard is a Professor at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. He co-founded the Australian Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy, is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, and has written more than 50 books and journal articles in areas associated with mental health, resilience, peak performance, parenting, and school ... Read more

Reviews for Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis
“The book is a good detailed overview of REBT methods.  Summing Up: Recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, general readers.”  (Choice, 1 July 2012) "The principles themselves are taken from chapter 4 of Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis, Michael E. Bernard's excellent summation of the great psychologist's life-work." (Jildy Sauce, 6 January ... Read more

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