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Informationen zum Autor Michael E. Bernard is a Professor at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. He co-founded the Australian Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy, is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy , and has written more than 50 books and journal articles in areas associated with mental health, resilience, peak performance, parenting, and school improvement. He currently consults with business and the public sector on principles of personal effectiveness, and is Managing Director of The Bernard Group. Michael worked closely with Albert Ellis for more than three decades. Today, he is recognized as an international authority on Ellis' work and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Klappentext Albert Ellis, one of the world's most influential psychologists, founded Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in the 1950s. Over the years, this pioneering form of cognitive behavior therapy has advanced the emotional well-being of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Yet while Ellis' innovative approaches for helping people with emotional difficulties are well known, his views on the pursuit of personal happiness - which have also influenced generations of people both with and without such problems - are far more elusive. Ellis' powerful arguments in favor of the rational pursuit of happiness are set out for the very first time in this book. Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness presents Ellis' views on how the principles of rational living can be used by anyone to achieve lifelong happiness. Transcripts of private counseling sessions and public forums reveal the great power of rationality and the self-defeating nature of irrationality. Drawing on 50 years of Ellis' writing, Michael Bernard shows how the emotional misery that arises from irrational thinking of the human psyche can obstruct our innate potential for self-actualization and happiness. In doing so, he firmly establishes Ellis as a pioneer of positive psychology and a human being whose superior intellect and years of public education and psychotherapy experience offer genuine insights into the eternal question of what makes for a happy life. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Author xiii Preface xv 1 Albert Ellis and the Pursuit of Happiness 1 The Early Life and Times of Albert Ellis 3 Albert Ellis' (Generally) Pleasurable and Happy Personal Life 4 Albert Ellis' Professional Life was Self-actualized 6 Ellis Speaks Common Sense 8 The Dual Nature of the Human Psyche 9 Nature-Nurture 10 The Purpose and Goals of Life 11 Happiness 12 Self-actualization 14 Ellis Abandons Self-esteem 16 Finding Happiness: No Apologies Needed 17 2 Why We Get Unhappy 19 What is Unhappiness? 19 Thinking Makes It So 21 Irrational Thinking 22 Irrational Beliefs that Create Unhappiness 25 The Strength of Irrational Convictions 30 People Upset Themselves About Being Upset 35 3 Refusing to Become Desperately Unhappy 41 The Development of REBT 41 The ABCs of REBT 44 Disputing Methods and New Rational Effects 52 The Elegant Solution 63 Fun and Humor 64 4 The Philosophy of Happiness: Principles of Rational Living 67 Rational Principle 1: Self-interest 68 Rational Principle 2: Social Interest 70 Rational Principle 3: Self-direction 70 Rational Principle 4: Self-acceptance 71 Rational Principle 5: Tolerance of Others 73 Rational Principle 6: S...
