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First‐Order and Second‐Order Change in Rational‐Emotive Therapy: A Reply to Lyddon

Albert Ellis

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Lyddon (1990) claimed that rational‐emotive therapy (RET) and other kinds of cognitive‐behavior therapy (CBT) are in “the rationalist camp,” are realistic rather than constructivist, and focus on the elimination of emotional responses to irrational cognitions. His allegations about CBT practices are questionable, and he ignores the fact that RET is not merely realistic and empirical in disputing clients' irrational beliefs but is in several respects one of the most constructivist of the psychotherapies.

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Key concepts: Emotive, Irrational number, Psychotherapist, Psychology, Order (exchange), Cognition, Epistemology, Focus (optics)