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Brandon Low
reviewed All Out!: An Autobiography on December 10, 2018
All Out!: An Autobiography
This is utterly dreadful, despite my having anticipated its publication I struggled to finish it. I could barely find a convincing emotion in the entire book.
Recalling a scene at nursery school and how he dealt with the perceived indifference of his peers,Ellis claims to have invented his REBT in infancy! He disputes their indifference and its awfulness, telling himself he can stand it. Absolute rubbish. Ellis would have called such claims out, had others made them, as bullshit.
There is barely a negative emotion, it's all rationalised/disputed away. How very tidy and convenient- and unrealistic. Freud got a lot wrong, but rightly argued repression doesn't work.
Any empathic person concerned with applying therapeutic systems to alleviate distress and improve lives ought to exercise a great deal of scepticism about the entire CBT rubric. The level of discounting necessary to disregard whole tracts of human experience (emotions) ought to set warning flags flying.
Imploring others to forget their "godawful past", rather than working through their experiences is terrible advice that could do immense harm. Maybe Ellis was Schizoid and the system he developed (in adulthood and over many years, not as an infant as he claims in the book) worked for him. Like Freud, Rogers and Perls etc, he developed a system that was initially intended to lay to rest his own demons.
I have come to disbelieve a number of claims Ellis made such as the famous one about asking out dozens of women and it not bothering him that they all refused, except one who didn't show up. Anyone would have feelings about such experiences and it would be normal and natural to do so. More to the point, it would be disavantageous not to experience, acknowledge and work through such feelings.
Feelings aren't tidy things one can conveniently shut away and forget about as Ellis tried to do and encouraged others to do. His entire therapeutic system (and CBT taken as a whole) seems to be built on the desire to avoid inconvenient feelings and have people merely functioning as automatons rather than rounded and emotionally intelligent human beings.
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