All Out!: An Autobiography

ISBN-13: 9781591024521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 668 str.

Albert Ellis

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This candid autobiography, the last work by renowned psychologist Albert Ellis, is a tour de force of stimulating ideas, colorful descriptions of memorable people and events, and straightforward, no-nonsense talk. Ellis, the creator of one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) recounts the memorable episodes of his life; discusses how he coped with emotional problems at different stages of life; describes his love life; and subjects his own self-description to a ruthlessly honest critique.
The heart of Ellis s book is his analysis of the psychological leitmotifs that have appeared again and again throughout his life. He describes the aim of this autobiography as follows: "As far as I can, I shall present my bad and good, stupid and intelligent, weak and strong points. Why? Because, following H. G. Wells s recommendation, I want to go as all-out as I can. I want to acknowledge my idiocies and use REBT to feel sorry about but unashamed of them. I want to make the point again a central tenet of REBT that all humans are fabulously fallible including, of course, me. We have no real choice about this, but we can unconditionally accept ourselves our so-called essence or being with our fallibility. That will momentously help us, probably encourage us to acquire unconditional self-acceptance (USA) and possibly inspire other people to give it to themselves, too." With a concluding chapter by Ellis s widow, Debbie Joffe Ellis, describing the final years of his life, this is the definitive summation of the life and work of one of psychology s most successful thinkers and practitioners."