ABSTRACT
Albert Ellis, the founder of rational emotive behaviour therapy, was rarely afraid to speak his mind. During his professional life, he was always updating his ideas and counselled his followers to take his lead by taking REBT seriously, but by not sacredizing it. While I am not sure Ellis would have approved the changes in terminology that I have made to REBT theory and which I outline in this opening chapter, he would surely have approved of me being my own person and taking the risk to begin this book by outlining and explaining these changes.
