PSYCHOLOGIST

Albert Ellis

1913 - 2007

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Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded, and was the President of, the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Ellis is the 39th most popular psychologist (up from 51st in 2019), the 780th most popular biography from United States (down from 770th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Psychologist.

Albert Ellis was most famous for his Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Albert Ellis ranks 39 out of 235. Before him are Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, Hermann Rorschach, Jerome Bruner, and Hans Eysenck. After him are Eric Berne, John Bowlby, Lawrence Kohlberg, Sabina Spielrein, Donald Winnicott, and Wolfgang Köhler.

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Among people born in 1913, Albert Ellis ranks 32. Before him are Silvio Piola, Paul Erdős, Roger Garaudy, Kenzō Tange, Lon Nol, and Carmen Amaya. After him are William Tolbert, Wolfgang Paul, Trevor Howard, Jacobo Árbenz, Jimmy Hoffa, and Frances Farmer. Among people deceased in 2007, Albert Ellis ranks 21. Before him are Maurice Béjart, Marcel Marceau, Alan Ball Jr., Benazir Bhutto, Sidney Sheldon, and Aden Adde. After him are Paul Cohen, Theodore Maiman, Ralph Asher Alpher, Gian Carlo Menotti, István Sándorfi, and Barry Nelson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Albert Ellis ranks 780 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Molaison (1926), Florence Griffith Joyner (1959), Robert W. Holley (1922), Carrie Fisher (1956), Barbara Liskov (1939), and Michael DeBakey (1908). After him are Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), Rod Steiger (1925), Howard Hawks (1896), James Ivory (1928), Keith Jarrett (1945), and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Albert Ellis ranks 14. Before him are Edward Thorndike (1874), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Howard Gardner (1943), Gordon Allport (1897), Paul Ekman (1934), and Jerome Bruner (1915). After him are Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Martin Seligman (1942), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), and Stanley Milgram (1933).

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