Ellis, Albert
<p>Jun 18, 2009 11:50 AM
 
lived to age 90.  Jewish.  
second most influential therapist.  1) Carl Rogers  2) Ellis  3) Freud.
 
many hospitalizations as child.... one for a year.
 
PhD from Columbia;  first he was a fiction writer; then non-fiction.
 
Set for cog beh therapy in 1957....  proposed that therapists help people adjust
their thinking and behavior.
 
prevalent paradigms at that time were either behaviorism while in clinical psych it was
Freud, Jung, Adler.
 
signif hostilty at profes. conferences.
 
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