앨버트 엘리스

소개

앨버트 엘리스(영어: Albert Ellis, 1913년 9월 27일 ~ 2007년 7월 24일)는 1955년에 합리정서행동치료(Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy)를 개발한 미국 심리학자이다.

Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded, and was the President of, the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies.