Call for the Reinstatement of Dr Albert Ellis as President of the Albert Ellis Institute, New York,

Legally, Dr Ellis was reinstated to the board of his own Institute on 30th January 2006, by the New York Supreme Court. However, in practice, he is still excluded from effective participation in board meetings; is not allowed to teach, train, or use the training room for his Friday Night Workshops. He also is not remunerate sufficiently to cover the costs of his nursing care needs! www.rebt.cc. (Recently a number of signatures have had to be rejected, because the signers are advertising drugs, pornography and credit cards).

To:  The Albert Ellis Institute, New York

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.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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