A New Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis, Robert A. Harper
|
List Price: Our Price: $8.91 You Save: $6.09 (41%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $1.83 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of A New Guide to Rational Living
Book Review: This book was written by Albert Ellis, not Melvin Powers
Summary: 5 Stars
Powers did the forward but Amazon has him listed as the author. Please someone make the correction to this, since Ellis' groundbreaking work must be attributed to him and his co-author, Harper.
I read this book about twenty years ago and I know it is time to get it out and read it again, since I continually engage in what Ellis calls being a "fallible human being".
In this world mired with problem-solving advise, the Guide to Rational Living still stands out as the epitome in self help. Want to get rid of "victim mentality"? Are you ready to stand up and take responsibility for yourself and give up self pity? If you are ready...read this book!
Book Review: An Excellent Self-Help Book
Summary: 5 Stars
In this classic book, Ellis and Harper provide a useful guide on how our irrational beliefs lead us to experience emotional disturbance and on how to change our irrational beliefs to more healthy ones. Although the book feels a little repetitive at times, this repitition helps to reinforce the authors' main points. The case examples given throughout the book hepfully demonstrate how the reader can learn to identify, dispute, and modify his or her irrational beliefs. If you think seriously about the advice in the Guide, it can have a positive impact on your life.Lee J. Markowitz, Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology
Book Review: how to change your life
Summary: 5 Stars
if i could make it a law that this book be read by everyone, i would. basically, ellis and harper teach us how to understand that it is up to us whether we want to be happy. it is all within our reach. all it depends upon is our thoughts and what we tell ourselves. you can be truly happy, enjoying your life, no matter where you have been, no matter what is going on!
the authors use many examples via their clients' lives to show their readers how to live a happy, rational life.
seamingly over-simplified! but truly amazing! liberating! and awesome! when you actually do live this way.
Book Review: One of the best books ever written!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book presents the best philosophical framework for living a rich, creative, engaging, and joyful life that I have ever read. It posits that your emotions are, in large part, a result of your internal thoughts, or self-talk. By becoming aware of your own self-talk and the many ways in which your thinking can take irrational turns, you can start to challenge your irrational beliefs, and with persistence, recast them into beliefs that better reflect reality. It's not the events in your life that cause you grief, it's what you think about them. One of Bill Gate's all-time favorite books.Book Review: My "Bible"
Summary: 5 Stars
My life was not what I wanted it to be. A therapist recommended the Guide to me. "Use it as your bible for six months, it will change your life."I did, it did.
I "loan" it to people who promise to read it and then discuss it with me. If they agree to my conditions, the book is theirs, if they don't, I ask for it back so someone else's life can change.
As I became disabled and handicapped and was forced to retire, I was able to stay on an even keel thanks to "THE Guide."
If you buy only one "self-help" book, please make it this one.