The influential Upper East Side psychologist Albert Ellis, who died yesterday at 93, won a lawsuit in 2005 that forced the board of the Albert Ellis Institute, which he founded in 1959 and practiced ...

Albert Ellis, the influential psychotherapist whose straight-talk approach challenged the work of Sigmund Freud and laid the groundwork for modern cognitive behavioral therapy, has died. He was 93.

Albert Ellis is a stoic philosopher with a sailor's mouth. A half-century ago, Ellis drew from Seneca and Epictetus in devising rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), a way of thinking about ...

Dr. Albert Ellis was sometimes called the Lenny Bruce of psychotherapy: He was funny, profane and controversial. His theories on cognitive therapy, first presented in the mid-1950s, challenged the ...

In the past year or so, The Atlantic has been running numerous articles decrying the growing overprotection of children by modern society. A recent issue featured an excellent article coauthored by ...

In our Retrobituaries series, we highlight interesting people who are no longer with us. Today let's explore the life of Albert Ellis, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 93. It’s no exaggeration to ...

[Updated: 3:05 p.m., Nov. 8] When Albert Ellis, father of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy and one of the most renowned, if eccentric, psychologists in the history of the field, died three years ago ...