A good leader is one who give people the freedom to be themselves and inspires them to strive for their highest and their best.

Psychologist                          

Selected Works:

The Folklore of Sex - 1951.
The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach - Introduction - 1951
The American Sexual Tragedy - 1954
Sex Life of the American woman and the Kinsey Report - 1954
The Psychology of Sex Offenders - 1956.
How To Live With A Neurotic - 1957
Sex Without Guilt - 1958
The Art and Science of Love - 1960
A Guide to Successful Marriage, with Robert A. Harper - 1961
Creative Marriage, with Robert A. Harper - 1961
The Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior, edited with Albert Abarbanel - 1961.
The American Sexual Tragedy, 2nd ed - 1962.
Reason and Emotion In Psychotherapy  -  1962.
Sex and the Single Man - 1963.
If This Be Sexual Heresy - 1963.
Nymphomania: A Study of the Oversexed Woman, with Edward Sagarin - 1964.
Homosexuality: Its causes and Cures - 1965.
Is Objectivism a Religion  -  1968.
Murder and Assassination, with John M. Gullo - 1971.
A Guide to Rational Living. Englewood Cliffs - 1961.
A New Guide to Rational Living - 1975
Anger: How to Live With and Without It - 1977
Handbook of Rational-Emotive Therapy, with Russell Greiger & contributors - 1977.
Overcoming Procrastination: Or How to Think and Act Rationally in Spite of Life's Inevitable Hassles, with William J. Knaus.  - 1977
How to Live With a Neurotic - 1979
Overcoming Resistance: Rational-Emotive Therapy With Difficult Clients - 1985
When AA Doesn't Work For You: Rational Steps to Quitting Alcohol, with Emmett Velten - 1992
The Art and Science of Rational Eating, with Mike Abrams and Lidia Abrams - 1992
How to Cope with a Fatal Illness, with Mike Abrams - 1994
Reason and Emotion In Psychotherapy, Revised and Updated  - 1994
How to Keep People from Pushing Your Buttons, with Arthur Lange - 1995
Alcohol: How to Give It Up and Be Glad You Did, with Philip Tate Ph.D - 1996
How to Control Your Anger Before It Controls You, with Raymond Chip Tafrate - 1998
Optimal Aging: Get Over Getting Older, with Emmett Velten - 1998
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything: Yes, Anything", - 2000
Making Intimate Connections: Seven Guidelines for Great Relationships and Better Communication, with Ted Crawford - 2000
The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse: Getting Off the Emotional Roller Coaster and Regaining Control of Your Life, with Marcia Grad Powers - 2000.
Counseling and Psychotherapy With Religious Persons: A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach, with Stevan Lars Nielsen and W. Brad Johnson.  -  2001
Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.  - 2001
Feeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better: Profound Self-Help Therapy For Your Emotions - 2001
Case Studies In Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy With Children and Adolescents, with Jerry Wilde - 2002
Overcoming Resistance: A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Integrated Approach, 2nd ed - 2002
Ask Albert Ellis: Straight Answers and Sound Advice from America's Best-Known Psychologis - 2003
Sex Without Guilt in the 21st Century - 2003
Dating, Mating, and Relating. How to Build a Healthy Relationship, with Robert A. Harper - 2003
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: It Works For Me - It Can Work For You - 2004
The Road to Tolerance: The Philosophy of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy - 2004
The Myth of Self-Esteem -  2005
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: A Therapist's Guide - 2nd ed - , with Catharine MacLaren - 2005
How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable. Impact Publishers - 1999
Rational Emotive Behavioral Approaches to Childhood Disorders • Theory, Practice and Research 2nd ed - With Michael E. Bernard - Eds. - 2006

Theories of Personality: Critical Perspectives, with Mike Abrams, PhD, and Lidia Abrams, PhD - 2008
This was his final work, published posthumously.                          

Ranked second most influential psychotherapist in history. Carl Rogers ranked first, Sigmund Freud was ranked third.