In the past year or so, The Atlantic has been running numerous articles decrying the growing overprotection of children by modern society. A recent issue featured an excellent article coauthored by ...

Now over 90 years old, the ebullient cognitive therapy pioneer Ellis has written more than 75 books, most of which advocate his brand of psychotherapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Writing in ...

This article is based primarily on Albert Ellis’ (9/27/1913-7/24/2007) autobiography All Out; all page numbers in the text below refer to this book. According to Ivey (2016), Ellis is considered the ...

Every Thursday afternoon, about a dozen men convene in a makeshift meditation hall at a correctional institution near Daytona Beach. Beneath too-bright fluorescent lights and separated only by sliding ...

Albert Ellis is a stoic philosopher with a sailor's mouth. A half-century ago, Ellis drew from Seneca and Epictetus in devising rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), a way of thinking about ...