rational-emotive therapy

[ rash-uh-nl-i-moh-tiv ]

/ ˈræʃ ə nl ɪˈmoʊ tɪv /

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noun Psychology.

a form of therapy in which a patient is asked to reject irrational attitudes and assumptions in order to deal effectively with stressful situations.

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How to use rational-emotive therapy in a sentence

Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
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I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.
You’re Never ‘Cured’ of an Eating Disorder|Carrie Arnold|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The campaign included a push for the World Health Organization to condemn gay-conversion therapy.
China’s Electroshock Gay-Conversion Case|Nina Strochlic|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Collaborating with him on a film was the best kind of therapy I could have asked for.
Blogger Shares and Shames Cancer in ‘Lily’|Amy Grantham|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In all fairness, too, Marshall has at the ready pretty rational reasons for almost every change he made in this adaptation.
Rob Marshall Defends ‘Into the Woods’|Kevin Fallon|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To supply eminent humorists and others with enjoyable, rational, and profitable employment.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
The pleasures of life (the rational pleasures I hope) had always an attraction for me.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Seven o'clock in the morning is too early for any rational human being to be herded into a factory at the call of a steam whistle.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
So, again, the rule of the English Church seems less beneficial than that of the more rational and free Nonconformist.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
The farmers prefer human machines to work for them, to rational thinking men and women.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie