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The myth of self-esteem : how rational emotive behavior therapy can change yourlife forever
- Author
- Ellis, Albert, 1913-2007
- Title
- The myth of self-esteem : how rational emotive behavior therapy can change yourlife forever / Albert Ellis.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2006.
- Description
- 344 p. ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-330) and index. Paperback.
- Contents
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- Introduction: is self-esteem a sickness?
- Nathaniel Branden and self-esteem
- Carl Rogers and unconditional positive regard
- Albert Ellis and unconditional self-acceptance
- Psychotherapy and the value of a human
- REBT diminishes much of the human ego
- Some definitions of conditional self-esteem (CSE)
- And unconditional self-acceptance (USA)
- The advantages and disadvantages of self-esteem (SE)
- Or conditional self-acceptance (CSA)
- The proverbs of Solomon and self-esteem
- Lao tsu and the philosophy of humility, moderation, and unconditional acceptance
- Jesus of Nazareth and self-esteem
- Spinoza and Nietsche and self-esteem
- Soren Kierkegaard and self-esteem
- Martin Buber and self- and other-acceptance
- Martin Heidigger and self-esteem.
- Jean-Paul Sartre and self-esteem
- Paul Tillich and unconditional self-acceptance (USA) and unconditional other-acceptance (UOA)
- Self-esteem and the practice of Tibetan buddhism by his holiness, the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler and by H. Gunaratana Manhathera
- D.T. Suzuki's zen buddhism and the philosophy of acceptance
- Windy Dryden, Michael Neenan, and Paul Hauck on unconditional acceptance
- Self-esteem and self-acceptance in the writings of Aaron Beck, David Burns, and William Glasser
- Stephen Hayes and other cognitive behavior therapists who endorse acceptance and commitment therapy
- Existential anxiety and how to defeat it with the
- Courage to be
- Taking the road less travelled to unconditional self-acceptance (USA)
- Specific thinking, plotting, planning, and scheming techniques of achieving unconditional self-acceptance (USA)
- Emotive-evocative and experiential exercises for achieving unconditional self-acceptance (USA)
- Behavioral exercises for achieving unconditional self-acceptance (USA)
- Summary and conclusion
- Appendix no. 1: the role of irrational beliefs in
- Perfectionism
- Appendix no. 2: showing people that they are not worthless individuals
- Appendix no. 3: comments on David Mills' "overcoming self-esteem"
- Appendix no. 4: intellectual fascism
- Selected references
- Index
- About the author
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- Kinsey subjects
- Self concept. Popular psychology.
- ISBN
- 1591023548 (pbk. : alk. paper)