Your Erroneous Zones
Your
Erroneous Zones is the first self-help book written
by Wayne
Dyer and issued on August 1, 1976. It is
one of the top-selling books of all time, with an estimated 35 million copies sold. The
book spent 64 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list through November 13, 1977,[1]
including a spot at number one on the week of May 8, 1977.[2]
Criticism
Psychotherapist
Albert
Ellis writes that Dyer's book Your
Erroneous Zones is probably "the worst example" of plagiarism of
Ellis' Rational Emotive
Behavioral Therapy (REBT).[3] In a 1985 letter to Dyer, Ellis claims that Dyer had
participated in a workshop Ellis gave on REBT before Dyer published his book,
in which Dyer appeared to understand REBT very well. Ellis adds that "300
or more people have voluntarily told me... that [the book] was clearly derived
from REBT." Dyer never apologized or expressed any sense of wrongdoing.
Ellis admonishes Dyer for unethically and unprofessionally not giving Ellis
credit as the book's primary source, but expressed overall gratitude for Dyer's
work, writing: "Your Erroneous Zones is a good book, ... it has
helped a great number of people, and ... it outlines the main principles of
REBT quite well,... with great simplicity and clarity." [4]
References
· · Ellis, Albert
(2010). All out!: An Autobiography. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
p. 485. ISBN 9781591024521.
·
Ellis, Albert (2010). All out!: An Autobiography. Amherst, N.Y.:
Prometheus Books. pp. 486–490. ISBN 9781591024521.
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