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The very fact that I have been asked to contribute a chapter on religion for a book on the applications of RET raises a question: Is there sufficient compatibility between these secular and spiritual endeavours so that adherents to either persuasion can benefit from the other? Such a question is not as likely to be asked of other therapeutic systems for the simple reason that it would largely be irrelevant. As Lawrence and Huber have pointed out (1982), and as previously observed by Miller (1977), other schools of therapy have a different philosophical and anthropological base than that of the pastoral counselor. Whether it be gestalt therapy, transactional analysis, nondirective therapy, or psychoanalysis, these approaches to the understanding and assistance of humankind are not particularly concerned with values, ethical positions, or moral issues—precisely the subject matter so important for the spiritual counselor (Ellis, 1973; Grau, 1977; Hailparn, 1973).
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Hauck, P.A. (1985). Religion and RET. In: Ellis, A., Bernard, M.E. (eds) Clinical Applications of Rational-Emotive Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2485-0_10
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