Offering an alternative to twelve-step programs, a supportive guide explains how to identify the impulse to use intoxicants, learn self-control, value sobriety, and replace addiction with self-supportive behaviors. Reprint.[...]

Albert Ellis was writing about personal happiness long before the formal discipline of positive psychology was founded. This book describes his work in helping people to eliminate misery and obtain happiness.[...]

Two psychologists present an innovative technique to help people act assertively and control their anger, in a guide that introduces the techniques and exercises of the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy approach[...]

This edition takes a look at the underlying causes of resisting cognitive-emotional-behavioral change and the methods used to overcome them. Written in present-action language, Ellis gives an overview of the basic principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. He als[...]

In this overview of one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy - Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) - its creator and chief advocate, Albert Ellis, explains at length the principles underlying this therapeutic approach and shows how beneficial it can be, not only for therapy but also as[...]

The most well-known and respected psychotherapist of our time offers a "three-pronged" system for maintaining--or regaining--emotional health, consisting of healthy thinking, healthy emotions, and healthy behavior.[...]

"Virtually anyone who reads this book can appreciably widen his or her free will and intentionally create happiness and satisfaction instead of needless pain." --Albert Ellis, Ph.D. "By poking fun at my frailties, Bill makes it impossible to ever again take them quite so seriously." --Jeff Lair, Ph.[...]