Therapy for mental health uses many different treatment methods for different problems. In a series of articles, we’re talking about the widely used forms of psychotherapy. After Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Psychoanalytical Therapy, let’s look at another important and popular form of therapy – Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT).
It was founded by Albert Ellis when he started to see gaps in Psychoanalytical Therapy. Ellis was of the point of view that, “People are not disturbed by things but rather by their view of things”. He believed that the way we think influences our feelings as well as our behaviours and that any irrational beliefs held by us about ourselves or the world will ultimately prove to be problematic.