Albert Ellis

✶September 27, 1913

†July 24, 2007

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Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded, and was the President of, the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies.

American psychologist (1913–2007)

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Biography from the article Albert Ellis on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.