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A slightly different version of this article appears in Windy Dryden,Rational-Emotive Therapy: Fundamentals and Innovations, London: Croom-Helm, 1984.
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Ellis, A. The essence of RET—1984. J Rational-Emot Cognitive-Behav Ther 2, 19–25 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02283005
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