Albert Ellis Responds To New Lies By The Albert Ellis Institute Board And Their Expensive Public Relations Deceivers

On November 9, 2005, Rory Stuart, Dr Ann Vernon, Dr James McMahon, and Dr Michael Broder, with the help of their expensive Public Relations firm, put out "information" about Albert Ellis, including this pack of lies.

Lie No. 1. "We are dedicated to preserving the legacy of Albert Ellis and delivering Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) faithfully to all clients and mental health professionals".

Fact:They are dedicated to killing Dr Ellis's legacy and emasculating it to everyone.

 

Lie No. 2."We have tried for over a year to accommodate Dr Ellis's needs".

Fact: They have tried since September 2004 to sabotage Dr Ellis's work for the Institute and himself. Latest sabotaging : today Dr Ellis and Debbie Joffe were told that the Institute would not permit visitors to be sent up to Dr Ellis's sixth floor apartment, but that Debbie Joffe would have to come down to the lobby to take the visitors up.

 

Lie No. 3. "We have attempted during this past year to negotiate a fair compensation package for Dr Ellis".

Fact: They and their lawyer, Dan Kurtz, Esq., have done everything possible to prevent such a settlement and at the moment are still doing so.

 

Lie No. 4."Dr Ellis's Demands for a package worth nearly $4 million "

Fact: Dr Ellis believes that the Institute owes him at least $4million for his past and present services to the Institute, but is willing to settle for a fraction of this amount, and has repeatedly said so through his lawyer Bob Juceum Esq.

Lie No.5. "Dr Ellis has distort[ed] the facts and personaliz[ed] many of his remarks, unfairly aiming them at individual Board Members, the Executive Director and other staff members".

Fact: Dr Ellis has FAIRLY aimed charges specifically at Drs Broder, McMahon and Doyle who have often acted unethically and illegally against him.

 

Lie No. 6."Dr Ellis was removed from the Board because independent audits indicated that he received "excess benefits" from the Institute".

Fact:Independent audits indicated the Dr Ellis received $400,000 from the Institute in 2004, and this amount was FALSELY judged by Dan Kurtz to be "excess benefits". First, the amount was paid in 2004, but was an installment on much more money than that which the Institute had AGREED to pay Dr Ellis for years to come -INTO A TRUST FUND THAT BRODER AND MCMAHON HAD SET UP FOR DR ELLIS, WITH BRODER AS ONE OF THE TRUSTEES, TO TAKE CARE OF DR ELLIS'S HEALTH CARE COSTS.

Second, the amount was never judged to be "excess benefits" by the Internal Revenue Service but was falsely CLAIMED to be so by Dan Kurtz and Dr Michael Broder. So this is really Lie No 6 and Lie No 7.

 

Lie No. 8. "No board members were coerced to vote in a certain way" on the vote to remove Dr Ellis from the Board.

Fact: ALL the Board Members were falsely told that they were responsible for Dr Ellis's supposed "excess benefits" and would have to pay for them personally if he were not removed from the Board. This was a FICTION created and told to them by Dan Kurtz when Dr Ellis's lawyers were banned from the Board Meeting.

 

Lie No. 9. "The decision to suspend Dr Ellis's Friday Night Workshop was made by senior staff members [and] the Board voted unanimously to ratify the decision".

Fact: As noted in Lie No. 8, the decision to suspend Dr Ellis was coerced, and later two Board Members came out strongly against it, said that it was coerced, and asked for it to be reinstated.

 

Lie No. 10. "Staff Members suggested alternate formats that would have allowed Dr Ellis to continue the (Friday Night) sessions.

Fact: The alternate formats that were suggested were NOT the Friday Night Workshops that Dr Ellis originated and presented very successfully for 40 years and was still presenting with acclaim up to the day in July 2005 that he was unethically forced to stop them.

 

Lie No. 11. "We on the Board can all agree on the tremendous importance of REBT and the remarkable benefits it provides to countless individuals the world over".

Fact: At least two of the members of the Board of Trustees strongly think that the main principles and practices of REBT have NOT been promoted for over 2 years, Dr Ellis clearly holds that the talks and workshops presented in the latest presentations of the Institute, from today until April 2006 ignore and largely bowdlerize Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

 

The above lies and the continuing efforts of the Institute, with the help of its expensive public relations firm to create more and more of them, indicate how the Institute is slandering Dr Ellis and making a mockery of the organization that wrongly still bears his name.