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Ellis' Irrational Beliefs
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Albert Ellis, in his Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), identified a number of dysfunctional beliefs that people often hold. Irrational beliefsHere are irrational beliefs that Ellis described:
DiscussionEllis's belief are deliberately extreme, to highlight that we often take unreasonably exaggerated viewpoints. He called this approach 'awfulizing', as we tend to pessimistically generalize these things. A way this can happen is that, if we have a strong need for certainty, we will tend to push perceptions towards the extremes when we actually should be considering them along a variable spectrum. Thus, we create stereotypes of ourselves. So what?So if you want to help the other person adopt more functional beliefs, help them first realize how extreme and irrational their generalized beliefs are. Then discuss with them how more rational and useful beliefs can be found. See alsoEllis, A. (1994). Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, NY: Birch Lane Press Certainty, Stereotypes, Kahler's Drivers, Polarization
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