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Face Your Fears (Don't Be Your Own Worst Enemy)

Stephen H. Baum

You can improve your life by taking control of self-defeating thoughts, feeling and behaviors. That is the thesis underlying cognitive behavior therapy, founded by Dr. Albert Ellis, who died in 2007 at age 93.

Ellis helped thousands of people. He practiced what some have called 'talk therapy.' As Michael Kaufman has written: "His [Ellis's] basic message was that all people are born with a talent for crooked thinking or distortions of perceptions that sabotage their innate desire for happiness. But he also recognized that people have the capacity to change themselves."

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