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All Al Ellis! A review of All Out!: An Autobiography by Albert Ellis (with Debbie Joffe Ellis) Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. ISBN $ Reviewed by John C.
Norcross All psychotherapists, it seems, elaborate their favorite Albert Ellis anecdotes—some humorous, some outrageous, some critical.
Staying rational in an irrational world: Albert Ellis and rational emotive therapy.
My favorite story combines all three elements and is related breathlessly every semester to curious students in my clinical psychology course. I recall attending my first American Psychological Association convention as a young doctoral student some 30 years ago and joining a standing-room-only crowd for a symposium devoted to the potential integration of religion and psychotherapy.
A nun presented an eloquent paper on their synergy and the prospect of developing a “soul therapy.” The crowd waited impatiently for Ellis to comment and was amply rewarded with his opening line: “Religion and psychotherapy; I say, ‘F**k it!’” Nothing was ever neutral or modest about Albert Ellis, on