Albert Ellis papers, 1920-2007, bulk 1965-1997

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Series IV: Notecards, Undated

This series contains three types of notecards. They have been divided into three sets, the first being notes in point form on REBT, and its application to different topics, which he referred to when giving various lectures, workshops, trainings, and seminars. The second set consists of the name, publisher, year, place of publication, details of books and authors Ellis used to put together the reference index sections of his books and articles. The third set consists of names, addresses, phone and fax numbers, and email addresses of people he would contact, including doctors and people who contacted him on a frequent basis.



Box 41 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Emotn" -- "Envir"; "Organic-Drug treatmt" -- "Orgnlty and intlgnc"; "Past"-- "Pers of T"



Box 42 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Sjstn Tech," "Suicide" -- "Symptom, treatm"; "Telep" -- „"Trans"; "Unconsc, anal of" -- "Unconsc, techs of gtg at"; "Vlu" -- "Vocal"; "Warmth" -- "Writing"; "Zen"



Box 43 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Short term" -- "Symptom removal"; "Tchg" -- "Trtmnt -- concurrnt H & W"; "Uncons" -- "Uncons -- activ imagina"; "Worth" -- "Worth -- self"



Box 44 Miscellaneous: "RET"; References (no order)



Box 45 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Death," "Decondit"; "Lrng" -- "Love"; "Magic" -- "Multiple"; "Neur" -- "Nonverbal"; "Objections" -- "Organic"



Box 82 Citations (no order)


Box 82 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Focusg-interp", "Focus", "Force" -- "Goals"; "Decondit", "Defenses" -- "Erly infl-oedipus"


Box 82 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Early-inflnc of", "Eclectic" -- "Emotn" (end of box 224); Citations, alphabetical by subject: "Sex -- Abortion" -- "Sex -- Women, wide range of"; "Abreactn", "Acceptg Inevitable" -- "Personality," "Philos"


Box 82 Citations, Alphabetical by Subject: "Phys Contk" -- "Zen" (end of box 225); Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Goals", "Goofg" -- "Hyp -- Incest"



Box 83 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Hyp -- indirect inductn", "Ilogic" -- "Info" (end of box 226); "Envir -- ltd", "Epidemiology" -- "Interp -- comparison interps"


Box 83 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Interp -- confronta", "Interview" -- "Lerng" (end of box 227); "Pers o T -- neg n.g.", "Persuasn" -- "Ratnl -- Tech"


Box 83 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Ratnl -- Tech", "Reassurance" -- "Resig -- so what" (end of box 228); "Resstnc -- to lrng", "Rslts" -- "Sex Tech -- Intercourse tech"


Box 83 Subject Terms and Quotations, Alphabetical: "Sex Tech -- anal inter", "Sex Theory" -- "Shockg techs" (end of box 229); Miscellaneous: Citations, "RET" [no order in subcategories]; Subjects and notes on reverse



Box 85 Photocopies -- Subjects-RET


Box 85 Photocopies -- Subjects-RET


Box 85 Photocopies -- Subjects-RET


Box 85 Miscellaneous: Rolodex cards, Handwritten Notes, Boarding Passes, Wedding Invitation, Conference Program with Notes



Box 98 Miscellaneous: Contact Information and Notes on Reverse; "Organic -- brain" -- "Organic -- psychosis"; "Ilogic -- biol" (in rubber band) -- "Illogical -- desire"; "Relig" (in rubber band); Subjects with Quotations [no order]; Sex Cards, Two Sets; Misc. notes


Box 98 Miscellaneous: Subjects -- RET; References -- L (rubber band), C, W, S, B, Br; Subjects -- M, O, S


Box 98 Miscellaneous: Subjects -- RET; References -- B, C, F, L, S to U; Misc. Other


Box 98 Miscellaneous Notes/References -- A to F, M to R, R to T (rubber band), T to Z (rubber band), Misc, A to D (rubber band), G to S



Box 99 Miscellaneous: Subjects -- RET; Misc; References -- D to Fr (rubber band), F to L; Misc. Notes/References; Notes -- E to I, N


Box 99 Miscellaneous: Notes -- A to C, H to I, R to W


Box 99 Miscellanous: Notes -- Misc, M, P, Misc; References -- A to W (rubber band); Notes -- Misc; References -- A to B (rubber band), B (rubber band), C (rubber band), D to E (rubber band), E to H


Box 99 Miscellaneous: Notes -- Misc; References -- M, S (rubber band), E (rubber band), I to K (rubber band), L, N to P (rubber band), Misc



Box 100 Miscellaneous: Subjects -- A to B (no order)


Box 100 References -- C to Fi


Box 100 References -- Fl to G, K, L, Misc


Box 100 References -- M to N



Box 108 References -- O to R


Box 108 References -- S to T


Box 108 References -- V to Z, Misc


Box 108 Miscellaneous: Subjects -- C (no order); Misc. References, Contacts, Subjects