REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes

Albert Ellis and Epictetus were wrong: People are upset by what happens to them! REBT CBT Book: Title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes https://youtu.be/lfmCs9hbN04 via @YouTube

I have just updated my blog with something on: Attachment theory and psychoanalysis for counsellors.. My theme was this: Reflections upon the journey of becoming a potent counsellor. The blog begins like this: "Firstly, I have read some of the core texts on Attachment theory, by Bowlby, Ainsworth, Main, Holmes, Wallin, and even, to some degree, Fonagy. I believe Attachment theory is a crucial part of the counsellor’s basic education. We have to be able to understand the ‘child in our client’ – not just in the Transactional Analysis sense, of scoring ‘high’ on child ‘ego-states’ (which means the client spending a lot of time and energy in those personality fragments, or ways of being, called Rebellious Child, Adapted Child, or Free Child). To have an attachment sense of the client is to sense whether they are secure or insecure in their relationships with others; ... https://abc-counselling.org/2017/12/11/5764

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes

Let me tell you what is wrong with RE&CBT...

Many people are interested in understanding the critique of Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (RE&CBT) created by Dr Jim Byrne, and published in his book titled, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes: The case against REBT/CBT.

However, because of the time required to read a 518 page book, which costs £21.99 GBP, there is an understandable barrier.

For these reasons, we have now produced 3 brief, PDF pamphlets, two of which are either 24 or 34 pages in length: https://abc-counselling.org/problems-with-rebt/

Quote of the Day – Thursday 30^th November 2017

On counselling, coaching, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy of psychotherapy, neuroscience, nutritional mental health, and many other related subjects.

E-CENT counsellors explore the narratives of their clients, with a view to helping them to manage their feeling-stories better: “Creating a consistent self-narrative (or personal story) that feels true to ourselves is a challenge at any stage in life.  Our stories give shape to our (unformed, fragmented), fleeting impressions of everyday life.  They bring together the past and the future into the present to provide us with...

End of extract... For more, please click this link: https://abc-counselling.org

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Our book – on how to control your anger, anxiety and depression, using nutrition and physical activity – is now well on the way through the publishing process, and should be available at Amazon within 7-10 days.  The latest update shows that we have expanded Part 6 to provide a comprehensive guide to how to change any habit, so that readers can actually make the kinds of changes to diet and exercise approaches that appeal to them.  Here is an extract from the Contents Pages, showing the expanded subheadings of Part 6. And if you want to see the whole of Part 6, please go here:

https://abc-counselling.org/diet-exercise-mental-health/

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On counselling, coaching, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy of psychotherapy, neuroscience, nutritional mental health, and many other related subjects.

In E-CENT counselling and psychotherapy theory, we teach our clients that the body is primary; that the innate emotions are prior to our cultural beliefs, thoughts and perceptions. We agree with Havi Carel’s view, where she writes: “(René) Descartes defined us as thinking, abstract souls… (But) Merleau-Ponty’s aim was to correct this erroneous view and …

https://abc-counselling.org

Low-cost, 70 Page Summary Critique of RE&CBT, by Dr Jim Byrne

Many people are interested in understanding the critique of Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (RE&CBT) created by Dr Jim Byrne, and published in his book titled, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes: The case against REBT/CBT.

However, because of the time required to read a 518 page book, which costs £21.99 GBP, there is an understandable barrier.

For these reasons, we have now produced a 70 page summary of the book, in the form of a PDF pamphlet, which can be bought, via PayPal, for just £4.95, and delivered to you within 24-48 hours, as an email attachment.

To find out more, please go to this link: Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes.***  https://abc-counselling.org/rebt-unfit-for-therapeutic-purposes/

Or: REBT: The limitations and errors in this system of counselling and psychotherapy  https://abc-counselling.org/problems-with-rebt/

Or you can go directly to PayPal and make your purchase.  Your pamphlet will be delivered to the email address you use at PayPal, normally within 24-48 hours:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=98ZJQAAASV5FG

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What doctors don't tell you, about Big Pharma: https://abc-counselling.org/what-doctors-dont-tell-you-about-big-pharma/

If you knew that the only way to live a happy and healthy life was to take responsibility for you diet and exercise, would you? https://abc-counselling.org/category/dr-jims-blog/

UPDATE: 15th October 2017

It took quite a while to construct the ‘diet and nutrition’ section of the index to our new book on how to use diet and exercise to manage your emotions. And I have not even begun the exercise section yet! Here are some extracts (‘snips’) from the letter-D section:

Snip 1: https://abc-counselling.org/diet-exercise-mental-health/

Renata has just published her latest blog post, which is on the benefits of sleep: “This blog is a rave review of a book review which I read, two weeks ago, in the Sunday Times Culture Magazine (October 1st 2017). It was written by James McConnachie.

He was reviewing ‘Why We Sleep’- a book written by Matthew Walker, who is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Berkeley, California. The book was published in September of this year.

https://abc-counselling.org/category/renatas-blog/

Taylor-Byrne, R.E. and Byrne, J.W. (2017) How to control your anger, anxiety and depression, using nutrition and physical activity.  Hebden Bridge: The Institute for E-CENT Publications.

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Do you know how to optimize your emotional wellbeing using diet and exercise approaches?

This book is intended for educational purposes only, and does not purport to be medical advice.  Bear in mind that each individual body is probably pretty unique, because of its unique nutritional journey through life.  We are changed by the foods we eat, and some experts would say we ‘are what we eat’.  However, we also know that physical exercise changes the biochemistry of the body-brain, which changes moods and emotions, as well as promoting better cardio-vascular health, and oxygenation of the whole system.

Furthermore, there are many expert nutritionists and nutritional therapists available today, at reasonable fees; and you would be well advised to see a nutritionist, or some other kind of holistic medical practitioner, if you are concerned there might be a link between your current emotional state and your diet. And there are increasingly available lifestyle coaches, health coaches, and exercises coaches and personal trainers, who can help to get you into a new set of healthier dietary and exercise habits which will promote greater physical and mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Nevertheless, despite the caveats above, there is undoubtedly a lot of very useful educational material in this book, based on recent, sound, scientific research, which could be helpful in guiding you towards your own answers to your questions about emotional health and wellbeing. The ideas in this book will also be an invaluable resource for counsellors, psychotherapists, health and lifestyle coaches, self-help enthusiasts and others.

https://abc-counselling.org/diet-exercise-mental-health/

There is no standard or invariable structure that can be applied to all E-CENT counselling and therapy sessions.  There are several core models that we use to guide our counselling process – and they will be reviewed below – but they tend to occur in various, unpredictable patterns, depending upon the client’s narrative, and various automatic counsellor-judgements. 

There are at least twenty standard principles that guide the thinking of the therapist, but not all of these are activated by any particular client, or client-problem: (See Chapter 3).  And the E-CENT counsellor is, in any case, guided from non-conscious levels of mind, rather than consciously working out how to respond.  So how can I quickly give you an overview of a ‘fairly typical’ individual E-CENT counselling session, as a map of the territory to be explored?

Here is my ‘quick tutorial’ on how to apply E-CENT counselling in practice... For more, click here to go to my Homepage: ABC Coaching and Counselling Services, Homepage.***

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The Preface of our new book is now available on our website. This is how it begins: "Despite our learning about the body-mind connection, from stress management and from Chi Kung, we continued to be controlled by the dominant psychological and psychotherapeutic model (as expressed in rational and cognitive therapy, and all other systems of therapy), in which the mind and body have been pulled apart and treated as separate entities. And therefore we continued to believe it was possible to help individuals who had problems with depression and anxiety, simply by talking about their beliefs, perceptions, interpretations and attitudes – regardless of how they managed their bodies.

"We both continued to have this schizophrenic attitude towards the body-mind – seeing them as united (for purposes of stress management), but strongly believing them to be separate (for purposes of psychology and psychotherapy).

"This schizophrenic approach fell apart in 2007, when I (Jim) began to ‘add back the body’ to the psychological/ psychotherapeutic understanding of human disturbance. (See the Holistic SOR model, in Byrne 2016[1]; and the body-connection, in Chapter 3 of Byrne 2017[2]). https://abc-counselling.org/diet-exercise-mental-health/

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes

Dramatic video presentation on Rational and Cognitive therapy...

In his Life of Dr Samuel Johnson, James Boswell famously wrote that only a blockhead would write for any reason except to make money.

This is a profoundly unhelpful statement because, if you wait to receive an assignment to write, you will never become a writer.  And if you wait for a publisher to offer you an advance before you put pen to paper, you will throw away any chance you ever had of becoming an accomplished writer.

Writers are people who write.  We write because we have to.  Our writing is a special form of the social propensity to make up stories in order to understand our lives.  We put down on paper what others merely utter in conversations, or think about in their heads in the dead of night, when they are forced by wakefulness to contemplate where they have been, and where they think they might be going in their lives.

https://abc-counselling.org/creative-writing-coach-hebden-bridge/

THE LIFE OF DANIEL O’BEEVE

He was born into a world that was so emotionally cold that it would be a miracle if he merely survived, with no real chance of living and growing and blossoming into a vital human being.

Thirty-six generations of his ancestors had been crushed by the jackboot of an invading empire.  They were treated like dirt.  Robbed of their humanity.  Consigned to the dustbins of history as a margin note; and an unflattering one at that.

But against all the odds, the empire was driven out, only to be replaced by a group of broken gombeen men; products of too much denigration and dehumanization to be able to restored the human soul of old Ireland.  They were joined in ‘power’ by a feudal religion which favoured ignorance over knowledge.

Daniel was born into this mess, among the lowest classes of that screwed up society.  He was not to expect anything. He should adapt and conform to the crushing deflation to which he was subjected from the beginning of his life. https://abc-counselling.org/jim-byrnes-autobiographical-novel/

To encounter the mind of another human being - especially one who has been on a particularly exotic or unusual journey through life - is to taste and feel part of their journey.  When the person in question is a remarkable writer, the journey is all the more worthwhile.  Don't waste your time reading the undeveloped.  Seek out the developed mind! https://abc-counselling.org/paperback-books-by-dr-jim-byrne-with-renata-taylor-byrne/

Couples Therapy

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes

Many of this author’s criticisms of REBT apply equally to all forms of CBT which utilise the ABC model of human disturbance.

Dr Byrne begins by showing that Dr Ellis was wrong on two major counts:

Firstly, Ellis’s claim that there is a difference in degree of disturb-ability of humans and other animals, and that the cause of that difference is the existence of language, and the capacity that provides to humans to think about their experiences, and to think about their thinking.  Dr Byrne presents scientific evidence to refute this line of reasoning by Dr Ellis.

And secondly, Ellis’s claim that he had evidence (in the form of a foundational case study) that people are upset by their thinking, plus their thinking about their thinking.  In a line by line analysis of the relevant text from Dr Ellis’s 1962 book, Dr Byrne destroys the basis of this false claim.

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REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes

Have you seen my passionate presentation on Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy...?

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes

A brief video introduction to my REBT CBT Book: Title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes https://youtu.be/lfmCs9hbN04

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes

Dr Jim Byrne presents a brief video introduction to his recent book critiquing Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (RE & CBT)

Check out our series of blog posts on counselling, coaching, psychology, personal development, etc: https://abc-counselling.org/about/

Renata has just posted a new blog on self-coaching. It's really about how to assess your stressors and self-supporting activities. More happiness is possible... https://abc-counselling.org/2017/08/25/a-self-coaching-exercise-happiness-audit/

What is it that makes this list of books hang together?  It's not the cover design, nor the subject matter, which includes REBT, Albert Ellis, writing therapy, holistic counselling, facing up to human suffering, healing the human heart, managing stress, and improving self-confidence.  What is the common factor?  ... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-Byrne/e/B0034Q8XJ2

Counselling, coaching and psychotherapy can be used by you to transform your life in several ways.  We can help in that process by providing you with new kinds of thinking-feeling-acting approaches to problem solving and decision making. And new ways to regulate your feeling-states.

We also offer a healing relationship – which is not easy to describe – but in the blog posts below we attempt to communicate to you what it might mean for you to engage in an emotionally healing encounter.

But first, let us sketch out the areas where you could benefit from our help (from either Jim or Renata):

https://abc-counselling.org

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Books on counselling, coaching, psychotherapy, writing therapy, REBT, CBT, affect retulation and attachment counselling: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-Byrne/e/B0034Q8XJ2

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Dr Albert Ellis, the very damaged individual who created RE & CBT! https://abc-counselling.org/2017/07/21/albert-ellis-and-rebt-ten-years-later/

Albert Ellis was a man of his time, which was a long time ago.  He modelled his philosophy of psychotherapy[y on the idealistic notions of a Roman slave, instead of on modern theories of social psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and so on. He grossly oversimplified the nature of human disturbance; blamed the client for ‘choosing’ to upset themselves; and denied the value of moral language.

https://abc-counselling.org/2017/07/21/albert-ellis-and-rebt-ten-years-later/

Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Albert Ellis:

On this anniversary, I have today posted a book review by Dr Meredith Nisbet of my book on the childhood of Albert Ellis.  This is what she wrote:

“Book Review – by Dr Meredith Nisbet:

“I learned so much about human nature reading your book about Ellis. I also learned from your book about Jim Byrne. The similarities are obvious. The differences are where most of the learning comes. You overcame your childhood experiences; he lived with his experiences, but the differences were that he needed help to conquer his experiences, but he never was able to “normalize” as you did. I’d like to hear your comments on what made the difference for you  – something within you or the people who helped you? Was his problem something he missed or didn’t think he needed? I think it was more the latter. What do you think?”

To see my response to her questions, please go here: https://abc-counselling.org/albert-ellis-a-wounded-psychotherapist/

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New #counselling #book: #REBT Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes: https://abc-counselling.org/rebt-unfit-for-therapeutic-purposes/

Twelve new quotations about counselling, coaching and psychotherapy – philosophy and change: https://abc-counselling.org

The book that skewered REBT/CBT! https://abc-counselling.org/rebt-unfit-for-therapeutic-purposes/

If you want to know, or need to know, where the fundamentally invalidating fault-lines are in the foundations of Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (RE & CBT), then this is the book for you. Many people feel there is something seriously wrong-headed about REBT and CBT, but they cannot put their finger on the fundamental flaws, because they have not devoted the time and energy that Dr Byrne has to the laborious process of conducting a line by line forensic analysis of the key propositions of this system of therapy. Now you can get the full story here: In the US: https://lnkd.in/g-BUmtX The UK: https://lnkd.in/g4YXEZw Canada: https://lnkd.in/g9Kt_BJ Australia: https://lnkd.in/gjsWdts

Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes: The case against Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (RE & CBT) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1545379599

This Could be Behind All Chronic Disease!

Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes:

The case against Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (RE & CBT)

https://www.createspace.com/7094032?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

The new REBT/CBT book cover continues to evolve:

Grenfell Tower: June 2017, by Ben Okri

In the process of publishing the new book on REBT-CBT. Renata spent most of the weekend doing her final edit of my polished text.  Then I found a problem with the printing quality of some of the illustrations, so I have spent a good deal of today (and probably also tomorrow) sorting that out.  In the meantime, I am experimenting with Charles Saul’s cover designs – which is at an early stage, as you can see from this image:

Our system of counselling/coaching (called E-CENT) deals with the whole individual – the ‘socialized individual’ – and not just with ‘beliefs’ or ‘thoughts’, or ‘conditions’ – and certainly not with psychiatric ‘labels’! https://abc-counselling.org

Climate March DC Coverage

Today, I have posted a 2.5-page summary of my new book, which critiques the core principles of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy REBT: https://abc-counselling.org/whats-wrong-with-rebt/

Let us now take a look at the ABC model of REBT: https://abc-counselling.org/whats-wrong-with-rebt/ 

#Coaching, #counselling and #psychotherapy in #Hebden #Bridge: #Emotive #Cognitive #EmbodiedNarrative #Therapy: https://abc-counselling.org

How to handle the stresses of work and life: Resilience for happiness and success: Daily Resilience–boosters for you: https://abc-counselling.org/2017/03/31/daily-resilience-boosters-for-you/

Life skills development are specific forms of ‘personal development’ in general.  Personal development happens whether we want it or not.  We have to grow and develop in order to deal with each new challenge we face in life.  The only question is, are we good at doing this on our own, or do we sometimes need some help.  But what do we mean by the term ‘personal development’? https://abc-counselling.org/private-tuition-life-skills-hebden-bridge/

Counselling, coaching and psychotherapy all overlap and complement each other. Sometimes coaching is said to be more skills-based, and not so deep.  Sometimes counselling is assumed to be more about listening and clarifying; while psychotherapy is seen to go deeper, and to seek a more radical overhaul of the client’s life history and future possibilities.  But in our system, coaching, counselling and psychotherapy are integrated, including elements from:

https://abc-counselling.org

Books by Dr Jim Byrne on counselling, therapy and personal development: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-Byrne/e/B0034Q8XJ2

Today is Thursday 23^rd February 2017, and I am writing my Morning Pages in my journal.  This is what I wrote:

I am feeling sad – I think – perhaps grieving… for… something.  Some loss of the part of myself that was involved in REBT – or even created by REBT! To the degree that people (or individual humans) are ‘storied being’ – products of internalized and self-created narratives about lived experience – then, to that degree, I am in the process of demolishing part of my own philosophical and cultural scaffolding. 

https://abc-counselling.org/whats-wrong-with-rational-emotive-and-cognitive-behaviour-therapy-rebt/ 

The curious boy: "He had some questions to ask.  He wanted to know how this could have happened.  How a small number of cruel and wealthy individuals could completely and utterly dominate the mass of the people."

https://abc-counselling.org/jim-byrnes-autobiographical-novel/

 

ABC Coaching and Counselling Services, Hebden Bridge, near Halifax West Yorkshire, HX7 8HJ

https://abc-counselling.org/

several strands of mysterious ‘fictional’ story, about the timeless struggle of good against evil; of love against hate and ignorance; and of the heroic journey

https://abc-counselling.org/jim-byrnes-autobiographical-novel/

For a full page of information about Jim Byrne's new book - 'Metal Dog - Long Road Home - please click this link: https://abc-counselling.org/jim-byrnes-autobiographical-novel/

Metal Dog - Long Road Home
A personal mythology
In this book, Dr Jim Byrne, the creator of Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy (E-CENT) has utilized his own system of narrative therapy to revise his original, non-conscious 'personal mythology', or 'story of self'.
According to the author, humans live inside of stories, and their lives are dominated and directed by those stories, or personal mythologies. It is impossible to 'forget' those mythologies, those scripts for a life pattern in the present and future. It is impossible to simply step out of them.
The only hope for humans who have been distorted by their childhood and early life experiences is to dig up their personal narratives, to examine and digest them, to revise them, and to create a new, consciously chosen personal mythology which can support a happy and successful future for them.
In this book, Dr Byrne demonstrates how to do that digging and digesting and rewriting tasks, by showing us how he healed his own traumatised body-mind, and his broken heart.
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Most people go through their lives with minimal consciousness of the ‘pot’ in which they are being ‘cooked’: like a boiled frog. https://abc-counselling.org/

Metal Dog – Long Road Home, by Dr Jim Byrne

This book is the nearest thing you will ever find to an autobiography of the first forty years of the life of Jim Byrne, the creator of Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy (E-CENT). However this is not how Jim describes it. Instead, he writes: “This text is my ‘revised personal mythology’...." https://abc-counselling.org/