Albert Ellis, PhD, (1913-2007), is the founder and president of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City. He received his MA and PhD degree in clinical psychology from Columbia University. and is a former Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University and Pittsburgh State College, Dr. Ellis has also been Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Professional School of Psychological Studies in San Diego. He served as Chief Psychologist of the New Jersey State Diagnostic Center and Chief Psychologist of the New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies. He has been a Consultant in Clinical Psychology to the New York City Board of Education and the Veterans Administration, and he has practiced psychotherapy, marriage and family counseling, as well as sex therapy, for almost 60 years. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Ellis has served as President of its Division of Consulting Psychology and as a member of its Council of Representatives. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychotherapy. Dr. Ellis has published over 700 articles and 65 books, among them Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, A Guide to Rational Living, and The Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (to be reissued with a new foreword by Raymond DiGiuseppe in 2007 by Springer Publishing Company). He has also served as Consulting or Associate Editor of many publications, including the Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Journal of Individual Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Psychological Reports, and The Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.||Windy Dryden, PhD, is Professor of Counseling at Goldsmith's College, University of London. He has authored or edited more than 100 books, numerous book chapters and articles, and he has edited 12 book series. Among those books published by Springer Publishing Company is the first edition of this book, The Practice of Rational-Emotive Therapy, The Essential Albert Ellis: Seminal Writings on Psychotherapy, Overcoming Resistance: Rational-Emotive Therapy With Difficult Clients and Doing RET: Albert Ellis in Action. He is a Fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy, the British Psychological Society, the British Association for Counseling, and is Consulting Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly (Springer Publishing)
