
“Secondary disturbance” is not secondary in signifance.
We have been having some great discussions lately over at the REBT-CBT Forum Yahoogroup. Thm raised an honest and important question and was kind enough to allow me to re-post it here. Thanks, Thm! His question and my response follows. Your follow-up comments and questions are encouraged and welcomed. Originally posted 2013-12-07 03:57:31.

Difference between “rational statements” & “positive thinking” ?
Originally posted 2013-08-29 05:05:56.

Can you dispute a “secondary disburbance”?
A reader asks what David Burns means in Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy when he says that you cannot dispute a feeling, you can only dispute a thought. Originally posted 2012-09-21 05:22:16.

Get up! Stomp around! Do your disputing aloud!
This is a follow-up to my post from last month “What if you only understand your REBT process intellectually?” Originally posted 2013-12-07 04:07:02.

Types of disputing
Will Ross, REBT extraordinaire, explains the different types of disputing . . . Originally posted 2013-02-07 19:47:55.

Disputing Overgeneralizations
A new reader asks how to dispute an “overgeneralization“ Originally posted 2017-06-07 00:00:23.

Only understand REBT “intellectually”?
What if you only understand your REBT process “intellectually”? I am not as warm & fuzzy as Will Ross is on this point . . . Originally posted 2013-11-27 03:09:37.