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Albert Ellis was a clinical psychologist and a marriage counselor. He was born on September 27, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ellis originated the rational-emotive therapy movement, which ignores Freudian theories and advocates the belief that emotions come from conscious thought "as well as internalized ideas of which the individual may be unaware. He was executive director of the Institute for Rational Living, Inc. Despite his health issues, Ellis never stopped working with the assistance of his wife, Australian psychologist Debbie Joffe Ellis. In April , Ellis was hospitalized with pneumonia, and had to stay in either the hospital or the rehabilitation facility.

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Albert Ellis was a clinical psychologist and a marriage counselor. He was born on September 27, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ellis originated the rational-emotive therapy movement, which ignores Freudian theories and advocates the belief that emotions come from conscious thought "as well as internalized ideas of which the individual may be unaware.