Aaron Beck
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Aaron Temkin Beck was an American psychiatrist who was a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is regarded as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive be
Beck in 1942
Beck's Hope High School yearbook photograph
Albert Ellis
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Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy. He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certifi
Aaron Beck
…automatic") thoughts, rated with a percentile belief score, classified and restructured. The psychologist who would become most important for Beck was Albert Ellis, whose own faith in psychoanalysis had crumbled by the 1950s. He had begun presenting his "rational therapy" by the mid-1950s. Beck recalled that Ellis…
Ellis c. 1966