Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) - Some reflections

I discovered the weaknesses of REBT quite by accident; and I began to deviate from the official model as a result.  In fact, my deviations from Dr Ellis’s philosophy had begun in 2001, when I began to review a critique of REBT, by Frank Bond and Windy Dryden, from 1996.  (See my CENT Paper No.1(a), [Byrne 2009c])[ii].  Those authors had raised concerns about the core of REBT theory being essentially untestable.  I waded in to defend REBT; went back to basics to clarify the core model – the ABC model – and in the process I raised more questions than I answered.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) - Some reflections