Posts by Rex Alexander:
Is Anything Truly Awful?
Does this look familiar?
Originally posted 2014-10-16 07:25:31.
Acceptance is the soft underbelly of REBT!
Originally posted 2017-07-27 03:53:30.
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to . . .
Click to listen to the great Lesley Gore great 1965 oldie, It’s My Party (and I’ll cry if I want to) We have been having an lively discussion about and adult who behaves with emotional immaturity such as avoiding attending a party for fear of seeing a rival there as a teenager might. Originally posted 2013-08-15 […]
Did you forget?
What on earth does memory improvement and memory training have to do with REBT-CBT??? Originally posted 2019-01-05 17:51:06.
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“Bad People” ???
Most people think here are a lot of bad people running around in the world . . . ~Sam Harris Originally posted 2017-08-15 21:53:26.
General Semantics. If you are new to General Semantics (GS), you can save yourself from going down a rabbit hole by understanding that the word General doesn’t communicate much here, and, more importantly, the word Semantics is very misleading . . . Originally posted 2019-06-30 18:06:28.
REBT and the Subconscious Mind
A loyal reader asks what Dr.Ellis had to say about the subconscious mind. Originally posted 2014-06-10 03:41:30.
What does REBT say about the unconscious mind?
Q: A reader asks: What does the theory of REBT say about the unconscious mind? A: Good question! You cannot talk about the “unconscious” without talking a little about Sigmund Freud. Freud was the first to present the idea of the unconscious or subconscious . . . Originally posted 2012-09-27 02:50:25.
Kumare, Scoundrel or Liberator ???
This is more about rational thinking in the larger sense than REBT per se. It illustrates in the most scandalous and amazing way human beings profound tendency to think, emote and behave gullibly, credulously and superstitiously. As Dr. Ellis ‘demurely’ said, “Humans are out of their fucking minds!” […]