Slog - Comments on Albert Ellis http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/albert_ellis I love a good psychotherapist obit. (Go ahead, put your Freudian analysis of that statement in the comments, make my day.) And I am not alone. Jen Graves and I were walking back from lunch just now and she said: "Did you read that thing about the thera..." We got distracted, and moved on to something else, but I knew what she was talking about. A moment later, I said: "The obituary?" Here is my favorite part of the obituary, the part where the psychotherapist-as-a-young-man does some completely understandable things that today would probably get him tagged as a... Copyright 2008 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:50:31 -0800 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:54:23 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ryan Awesome.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/albert_ellis#c769996 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/albert_ellis#c769996 Life Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:54:53 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell Very awesome.

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/albert_ellis#c770013 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/albert_ellis#c770013 Life Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:13:15 -0800 Comment by Doris Nicastro I knew this guy. During the 70's REBT's building was used for consciousness raising sessions. It was a gorgeous place... the original townhouse of Eleanor and Franklin and right next to his mother's townhouse. She'd bought both so Franklin would never be far from her. Yikes.

I would sit in the library which had all the original furniture and think... wow... Franklin used to sit right there at that very desk! I was star struck.

Ellis was deliciously crazy.

One of the 'exercises' he wanted us to do to show that embarrassments don't matter was to put a string through a banana and walk it down the street like a dog. We ignored that kind of advice, but Ellis was a fun guy for sure.

]]> Doris Nicastro http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/albert_ellis#c770234 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/albert_ellis#c770234 Life Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:54:23 -0800