New Guide to Rational Living, A
Ellis, Albert, Ph.D. and Harper, Robert A., Ph.D.
Lingua: inglese
Editore: Melvin Powers, Wilshire Book Company, Hollywood, 1976
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Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: This book is based on the work A Guide to Rational Living. FOREWORD BY: Melvin Powers. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Tirza & Melvin Powers. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction to the Revised Edition 1 How Far Can You Go with Self-Analysis? 2 You Feel the Way You Think 3 Feeling Well by Thinking Straight 4 How You Create Your Feelings 5 Thinking Yourself Out of Emotional Disturbances 6 Recognizing and Attacking Neurotic Behavior 7 Overcoming the Influences of the Past 8 Does Reason Always Prove Reasonable? 9 Refusing to Feel Desperately Unhappy 10 Tackling Dire Needs for Approval 11 Eradicating Dire Fears of Failure 12 How to Stop Blaming and Start Living 13 How to Feel Undepressed Though Frustrated 14 Controlling Your Own Destiny 15 Conquering Anxiety 16 Acquiring Self-Discipline 17 Rewriting Your Personal History 18 Accepting Reality 19 Overcoming Inertia and Getting Creatively Absorbed 20 Living Rationally in an Irrational World 21 Rational-Emotive Therapy or Rational Behavior Training Updated; References; Index. EXCERPT: INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION We view A Guide to Rational Living as a somewhat revolutionary book. When it first appeared, in 1961, it presented to the reading public one of the first books by reputable, experienced psychotherapists that showed people how to deal effectively with their own problems . . . Many other important revisions of RET get included in this volume: so many, in fact, that we list the major ones in a special extra chapter of the Guide. Let us just say briefly here that in numerous instances, in the course of this revision, we eliminate the absolutistic kind of statements (including many shoulds and musts) that we carelessly let stand in the original edition. We significantly modify the RET concepts of human worth and worthlessness. We clearly distinguish inappropriate from appropriate forms of emotions. We notably sharpen our distinctions between blaming or condemning certain of your behaviors and damning or devil-ifying yourself for engaging in those poor behaviors. We stress, much more than we did in the first edition of the Guide, both thinking and activity homework assignments. And we include a good many newly developed rational procedures, such as the rational-emotive imagery techniques originated by Dr. Maxie C. Maultsby, Jr., that seem to greatly add to the effectiveness of RET. In many ways, then, this adds up to a notably updated, significantly developed, and extensively revised edition of A Guide to Rational Living. We believe that virtually all the effective teachings of the original version remain. But a whale of a lot has gotten added! Read on--and see for yourself. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…
Codice articolo 004339
- Titolo
- New Guide to Rational Living, A
- Autore
- Ellis, Albert, Ph.D. and Harper, Robert A., Ph.D.
- Editore
- Melvin Powers, Wilshire Book Company, Hollywood
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 1976
- Condizione
- Very Good
- Rilegatura
- Trade Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 0879800429
- ISBN 13
- 9780879800420
- Edizione
- Second Edition 1st Printing.
- Cataloghi dei venditori
- Self-Help
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 scope of their psychotherapy, with subtle, helpful solutions that reflect their vast experience as therapists. They have training and a host of case histories, to buttress their advice. This not only makes for a more interesting book but creates confidence in the reader concerning the techniques suggested, all of which have proven effective in a clinical setting.
Their direct, get-to-the-heart-of-the-problem methods show wide variance with most orthodox treatments that drag on interminably with clients never quite knowing where they stand. As far as I can see, here certainly lies, along with group therapy, the direction psychotherapy will take if it intends to make a real contribution to comprehensive health.
If you feel you have the rigorous honesty necessary to conduct self-analysis, this book will be the most important one you have ever read. And it will seem a boon to those who cannot pay the high fees charged for individual treatment.
You have my best wishes as you join the 1.5 million people who have read and greatly benefited from A Guide to Rational Living since my publication of the first edition. You have chosen to read a book that has set the standard and that likely will remain the standard for years to come.
Melvin Powers, Publisher
Wilshire Book Company
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