Albert Ellis, rational therapy and the media of "modern' emotional management

作者：Stark Luke^*

来源：History of the Human Sciences, 2017, 30(4): 54-74.

DOI：10.1177/0952695117722720

• Albert Ellis
• history of psychology
• media
• modernism
• therapy

This article explores the development of therapeutic psychological techniques for emotional management as exemplified by Albert Ellis's development of rational therapy (RT) in the 1950s and 1960s. A precursor to contemporary Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), rational therapy conceptualized emotion as manageable through scientific self-narration. The article examines how Ellis's immersion in media techniques and forms accessible to a general audience shaped his focus on a new language for clinical practice inspired by behaviorist principles, and how much this clarified' language exemplifies the application of high modernist ideology' to the treatment of the postwar American psychological subject.

• 出版日期2017-10