Australian Psychologist. These predictions are likely to originate from one or more abstract scientific hypotheses about how the phenomenon under study actually works. At the time Columbia awarded him a doctorate in Ellis had come to believe that psychoanalysis was the most effective form of therapy. Justification in psychotherapy usually appeals to the model in question, rather than to a body of knowledge that all practitioners share as in medicine. Logical disputing of people's overgeneralized and illogical beliefs: "Because I didn't succeed at this important task, that makes me a stupid, hopeless person.
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