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Why I (really) became a therapist
Author(s) -
Ellis Albert
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20166
Subject(s) - psychology , psychotherapist , emotive , anxiety , directive , experiential learning , desensitization (medicine) , criticism , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychiatry , pedagogy , medicine , philosophy , receptor , computer science , programming language , art , literature
This article describes how the author really became a therapist and worked on his own social and performance anxiety. He was at first a follower of liberal psychoanalysis, but, in successfully using in vivo desensitization on himself, he overcame his anxiety and became highly constructivist. He finally created rational emotive behavior therapy, the pioneering cognitive‐behavior therapy; integrated it with emotional‐evocative and experiential methods; and used it to cope with much criticism he received about his active‐directive techniques. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session 61: 945–948, 2005.