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How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You
by Albert Ellis
from Citadel

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Read this Book to Control Your Unnecessary Anxiety
  Albert Ellis is, in my opinion, one of the great minds in psychology of the last 100 years. His name does not come as easily from peoples' mouths when they talk about the greats who have studied and helped solve mind problems for many, many people. You will always hear about Freud, Jung, Rogers et al, but hardly ever about Ellis. This work, as well as his many others, are why he should be among those in that pantheon.
  Ellis claims, rightly, that it is not just events that affect how we feel but our... more info

• A little too vague for me.
  I couldn't relate to the scenarios in the book very well as a lot of them dealt with social anxiety and seemingly less complex issues than I was looking for, but it was a good informative book none the less.

• Okay but read his books....
  Maybe it's me but I prefer to read Dr. Ellis' books to the tapes. The tapes just don't seem to have the impact,at least for me.This one went on and on about some guy's sex life and learning how to come correctly. I'm not a prude but I would hesitate to loan this to my mother or someone not as comfortable with blunt sexual language.Still I have a great deal of respect for REBT and like the books.

• Easy read; comprehensive action methods to control anxiety
  At the time I bought this book, I was unaware of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, had never heard of Dr. Albert Ellis, and wasn't really looking to solve any particular anxiety problem of my own. Always a fan of Dale Carnegie's "How to ..." instructional writings, I figured this would be a new perspective on a popular and important subject. What I learned was that Dr. Ellis has extensive experience (since 1943) in psychotherapy and actually devised REBT in 1955. Like Carnegie, he is quite good at putting... more info

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