Abstract
We congratulate Robert King for his reconsideration of an important book by Aaron Beck and others, and his view of the future of cognitive therapy [1].
We don't want to be picky, but he states that ‘Ellis and Beck were not only psychiatrists but had been trained as psychoanalysts…’. This is not accurate, Ellis was not a psychiatrist.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1913, he gained a degree in business administration from the City University of New York and gained a Master's in clinical psychology from Columbia. He completed a full analysis and practised psychoanalysis. He published his first book on ‘rational emotive therapy’ (RET) in the 1950s.