Abstract
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is one of the main humanistic psychotherapies. It shows how people, in an all‐too‐human manner, create a large part of their emotional disturbances and also have the ability to uncreate them. It is a theory of personality and of therapy that emphasizes emotional health and self‐actualization for individuals and for the social group in which they choose to live. It avoids devotion to any kind of magic and supernaturalism. It especially emphasizes unconditional self‐acceptance (USA), antiabsolutism, uncertainty, and human fallibility, and tries to combine scientific flexibility and rigor with an existentialist‐humanist approach. This article is adapted from Ellis (1994b), and Ellis (1972a).
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