Albert Ellis PhD – Rational Living in an Irrational World

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Direct, get-to-the-heart-of-the-problem methods to teach
you what you do to needless upset yourself and make
yourself emotionally stronger by the creators of the
most popular forms of therapy in the world.
From the foreword by publisher Melvin Powers:
Years ago, after two decades of burning the midnight
oil, reading manuscripts which professed to have all the
virtues this one actually possesses, I found the original
New Guide to Rational Living—a gem that has become
a classic in the field of psychology.
Since then, I am delighted to say, I have sold 1.5 million
copies of this book in previous editions. Numerous
readers have thanked me for making the book available
and have related how positively it has affected their life.
Undoubtedly this new, updated third edition will prove
particularly valuable to present-day readers, who face
unprecedented challenges in daily living.
Those who have read a large number of euphoric and
inspirational books without achieving lasting success
will particularly appreciate this book. For although A
Guide to Rational Living makes no promises, it can help
readers more than all the other books put together.
In the first chapter of this extraordinary new edition of A
Guide to Rational Living, Drs. Albert Ellis and Robert A.
Harper express the hope that readers will not “jump to
the conclusion that we hand out the same old
hackneyed, Pollyannaish message that you may have
long ago considered and rejected as having no practical
value.”
This book, unlike others you have probably read,
employs none of the jargon usually associated with
psychology or psychiatry, and it may well prove to be
the best book on psychotherapy for laymen ever written.
It can provide emotionally disturbed individuals with
many answers they seek, and it can help everyone to
feel better about themselves and to deal with their lives
more effectively.
The authors use a unique method of projecting their
solutions to common problems. Thus, they point out that
the individual who feels inadequate and insecure suffers
from, for example, “Irrational Belief No. 2: The idea that
you must be thoroughly competent, adequate, and
achieving.”
Drs. Ellis and Harper use ten such ideas to bring out the