Albert Ellis

Albert Ellis (born September 27, 1913) is an American psychologist whose Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), is the of all cognitive and therapies.

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Ellis was born of Jewish parents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the eldest of three children; he had a brother was two years younger, and his sister who was four years younger. Ellis's father was a businessman who experienced minimal success at a succession of business ventures; he showed only a modicum of affection to his children and was often away from home on business trips during their early childhood. In his autobiography, Ellis characterized his mother as a self-absorbed woman with a Bipolar disorder affect. At times, according to Ellis, she was a ?bustling chatterbox who never listened." She would expound on her strong opinions on most subjects but rarely provided a factual basis for these views. Like his father, Ellis' mother was emotionally distant from her children. Ellis recounted that she typically was sleeping when he left for school and was usually not at home when he returned. Instead of reporting feeling bitter, he took on the responsibility of caring for his siblings. He purchased an alarm clock with his own money and woke and dressed the his younger brother and sister. Despite the emotional paucity, his family had very little privation until the depression. It necessitated all three children seeking work to assist the family. Young Albert was a frail young man and suffered numerous health problems through his youth. At the age of five he was hospitalized with a kidney ailment. He was also hospitalized with tonsillitis, which led to a severe strep requiring emergency surgery. He reported that he had eight hospitalizations between the ages of five and seven. One of these lasted nearly a year. His parents provided little or no emotional support for him during these years, rarely visiting or consoling him. Ellis stated that he learned to confront his adversities as he had ?developed a growing indifference to that dereliction.?

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