PETITION

We, the undersigned, are very concerned by the extreme action of the board of the Albert Ellis Institute in dismissing the President, Albert Ellis, who not only created the system of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, upon which the Institute is based, but who also bought the building in which the Institute is housed, recruited and trained all of the current and former staff members of the Institute, and wrote most of the books and pamphlets that are sold by the Institute, and who almost single-handedly promoted REBT into a prominent role worldwide, but who is also 92 years old, and physically unwell.

We have read the New York Times article (which is displayed on the foot of this web page: http://www.rebt.cc/_wsn/page12.html, about 80\% of the way down the page), and we agree with Dr Ellis that he has been treated unfairly. We agree with other commentators that he has been the victim of a palace coup; and we call for him to be reinstated forthwith, and treated with the dignity , respect and sympathy that he deserves for his fifty years of dedicated, and single-minded devotion to the Institute and its work.

We also call for an investigation into the circumstances in which the Executive Director brought about this scandalous act of organizational destruction; the immediate reinstatement of Dr Ellis as President of the Institute; and a public apology and appropriate compensation package.