PSY230H1 Lecture : Albert Ellis
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Changed it once more to rational emotive behaviour therapy. Philosophical origins: go back to stoic philosophers, especially marcus aurelius, and. People are not disturbed by things but by the view which they take on them . As well as immanuel kant on cognition and ideation, bertrand russell (emphasized importance of testing hypotheses). Adler"s idea that everything depends on opinion is very important for rebt. Conscious and unconscious absolutistic philosophical tenents lead to difficulties. People have strong tendencies to self-actualize and defeat. Spirituality and etc can help but not when it is absolutistic (supernatural, very religious, etc). A theory of personality that arises from its theory of personality change. We are sign, symbol, and language creating animals that use four fundamental processes: perception, movement, thinking and emotion. One perceives, moves, feels and thinks about a problem and situation. This merges into a self-talk, like internalized sentences. Sustained emotions have to be backed up with certain thoughts.
