RATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
RATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
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DOI:
10.1080/00221309.1958.9710170
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发表时间:
1958-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
ELLIS, A
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作者:
ELLIS, A
The central theme of this paper is that psychotherapists can help their clients to live the most self-fulfilling, creative, and emotionally satisfying lives by teaching these clients to organize and discipline their thinking. Does this mean that all human emotion and creativity can or should be controlled by reason and intellect? Not exactly. The human being may be said to possess four basic processesperception, movement, thinking, and emotion-all of which are integrally interrelated. Thus, thinking, aside from consisting of bioelectric changes in the brain cells, and in addition to comprising remembering, learning, problem-solving, and similar psychological processes, also is, and to some extent has to be, sensory, motor, and emotional behavior (1, 4). Instead, then, of saying," Jones thinks about this puzzle," we should more accurately say," Jones perceives-moves-feels-THINKS about this puzzle." Because, however, Jones' activity in relation to the puzzle may be largely focused upon solving it, and only incidentally on seeing, manipulating, and emoting about it, we may perhaps justifiably emphasize only this thinking.Emotion, like thinking and the sensori-motor processes, we may define as an exceptionally complex state of human reaction which is integrally related to all the other perception and response processes. It is not one thing, but a combination and holistic integration of several seemingly diverse, yet actually closely related, phenomena (1). Normally, emotion arises from direct stimulation of the cells in the hypothalamus and autonomic nervous system (eg, by electrical or chemical stimulation) or from indirect excitation via sensori-motor, cognitive, and other conative processes. It may theoretically be controlled, therefore,