文档介绍：Rational and Irrational Beliefs
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Rational and
Irrational Beliefs
Research, Theory, and Clinical
Practice
Edited by Daniel David,
Steven Jay Lynn, and Albert Ellis
1
2010
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Rational and irrational beliefs : research, theory, and clinical practice / edited by Daniel David,
Steven Jay Lynn, & Albert Ellis.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-19-518223-1
1. Delusions. 2. Irrationalism (Philosophy) 3. Rationalism. 4. Health behavior.
I. David, Daniel, Dr. II. Lynn, Steven J. III. Ellis, Albert, 1913–2007.
2009
—dc22
2009003476
987654321
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
Preface
In the 1950s, influential researchers and theoreticians (., Noam Chomsky,
e Miller, Alan Newell, Herbert Simon) departed from the behaviorist
tradition and broke the intellectual ground for the nascent field that Ulrich
Neisser (1967) termed ‘‘cognitive psychology’’ in his book by the