ABSTRACT
There are many ways in which psychotherapists can help clients to briefly feel better, but most of them help for only a short period of time and do not enable the clients to get better ( Ellis, 1972a ). When clients feel better, they improve at least temporarily in their presenting symptoms. Thus, they feel less anxious, depressed, guilty, and enraged; they behave less phobically, addictively, and procrastinatingly; and they feel happier and act more constructively as a result of the lessening or removal of these presenting symptoms.
