Chapter Review

The title of Albert Ellis' book, How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything --- Yes, Anything!, was what first caught my eye when choosing a book for this assignment. I had never read anything by Ellis before, but had studied his philosophies in my theory class. To be honest I was afraid his writing would be too formal for my taste, but was pleasantly surprised at how down to earth his writing is. He wrote this book in a self-help format, to assist people in acquiring good mental health and happiness. Ellis states in the introduction that he wrote this book because "no book as yet gives a hard-headed, straight-from-the-horse's-mouth version of RET". He wrote this book to make up for that omission.
Chapter seven is titled, You control You Emotional Destiny. In this chapter Ellis explains the ABCs of his famous Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET), an idea that he originated in 1955. He says that the basic idea of rational-emotive......

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