The myth of self-esteem : how rational emotive behavior therapy can change your life forever
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The myth of self-esteem : how rational emotive behavior therapy can change your life forever
Prometheus Books, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-330) and index
Contents of Works
- 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 and unconditional self-acceptance
- The advantages and disadvantages of self-esteem or conditional self-acceptance
- 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 Nietzsche and self-esteem
- SØren Kierkegaard and self-esteem
- Martin Buber and self- and other-acceptance
- Martin Heidegger and self-esteem
- Jean-Paul Sartre and self-esteem
- Paul Tillich and unconditional self-acceptance and unconditional other-acceptance
- Self-esteem and the practice of Tibetan buddhism by the Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler, and 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 traveled to unconditional self-acceptance
- Specific thinking, plotting, planning, and scheming techniques of achieving unconditional self-acceptance
- Emotive-evocative and experiential exercises for achieving unconditional self-acceptance
- Behavioral exercises for achieving unconditional self-acceptance
- Summary and conclusion
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this illuminatingbook, Ellis provides a lively and insightful explanation of the differences between self-esteem and self-acceptance. Emphasizing the importance of self-acceptance, he examines this theme in the thinking of great religious teachers, philosophers, and psychologists. He then provides exercises for training oneself to change self-defeating habits to the healthy, positive approach of self-acceptance. These include specific thinking techniques as well as emotive and behavioral exercises.
He concludes by stressing that unconditional self-acceptance is the basis for establishing healthy relationships with others, along with unconditional other-acceptance and a total philosophy of life anchored in unconditional life-acceptance.
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