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REBT in Group Therapy

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Albert Ellis began practicing group therapy with deviant adolescents utilizing a psychoanalytic approach in the early year of 1949 at the New Jersey State Diagnostic Center. For many of the same reasons he criticized individual therapy using psychoanalysis, he had similar views about conducting group therapy with psychoanalysis.

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  1. Albert Ellis Institute, New York, NY, USA

    Kimberly A. Alexander & Kristene A. Doyle

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  1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Michael E. Bernard

  2. Goldsmiths University of London, London, UK

    Windy Dryden

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Alexander, K.A., Doyle, K.A. (2019). REBT in Group Therapy. In: Bernard, M.E., Dryden, W. (eds) Advances in REBT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93118-0_10

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