Albert Ellis, Stoicism and CBT with David Alexander
The Walled Garden
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy - What Is It?
Albert Ellis founded the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City, if you're going to get trained in this rational and motive behavior therapy that he founded. He also had a passion for helping people think rationally. His second passion was as a sexologist, but he was really interested in helping people to reduce the shame and guilt around sexuality. The ABCD model of how do you change your emotions? If you have an emotion, you want to change your anxious, you're depressed. How do you change that? So then his idea is that you're having an irrational belief. That's all of modern, what a lot of psychotherapists do comes from that idea, especially.
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