Title

The Treatment of Morbid Jealousy: A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach.

Authors

Ellis, Albert

Abstract

Jealousy can be seen as rational or undisturbed when people strongly desire love and affection from others but do not dogmatically insist that they absolutely must have it. When they are irrationally or self-defeatingly jealous, they usually have a number of irrational beliefs leading to their feelings of insecurity, rage, and low frustration tolerance. These are described in this article and several cognitive, emotive, and behavioral methods are presented that are commonly used in rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) to reduce irrational jealousy.

Subjects

RATIONAL emotive behavior therapy; JEALOUSY; COGNITIVE therapy; BEHAVIOR therapy; PSYCHOTHERAPY

Publication

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 1996, Vol 10, Issue 1, p23

ISSN

0889-8391

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1891/0889-8391.10.1.23