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MAXIE C. MAULTSBY, Jr., M.D.

Maxie C. Maltsby, Jr., M.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry, best known as the creator of Rational Behavior Therapy, a technigue of cognitive-behavior psychotherapy and counselling. This therapy emphasizes the role of beliefs in causing emotional reactions, and recommends therapeutic intervention based on changing a patient's belief systems.

He is also the creator of the emotional self-help method called "Rational Self-Counseling" and the creator of the new self-help "Alcoholic Relapse Prevention Treatment Method."

Maultsby is currently a Professor in the Psychiatry Residence Training Program, at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, which is under the Department of Mental Health of the District of Columbia. He is also Emeritus Professor, Psychiatry Department, in the College of Medicine, at Howard University.

Early Education: Maultsby graduated from Jones High School in Orlando, FL in 1949. He received is his B.A. from Talladega College in Alabama in 1953. He then attended Medical School at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1957, he received his M.D. and went to Philadelphia General Hospital as an intern.

Pre-Academic Career: Following his internship in Philadelphia, Maultsby became a GP of Medicine in Cocoa, FL in 1958. In 1962 he became a medical officer in the US Air Force.

Specializing in Psychiatry: In 1966, After leaving the Air Force, Maultsby went to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals to do a Psychiatry Residency. He then followed this with a Residency in Child Psychiatry. During in this time he also did an intensive training in Behavior Therapy with Joseph Wolpe at the Eastern Psychiatric Institute, and an intensive training in Autogenic Therapy with Wolfgang Luth.

Professional Life in Psychiatry: In 1970 Maultsby joined the Medical faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as an Assistant Professor. In 1971 he became an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Director of the Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Program at the University of Kentucky.

In 1973 Maultsby Founded and Directed the Training and Treatment Center for Rational Behavior Therapy, which he led until 1987. In 1987 he left the Center and his academic position at Kentucky. He briefly served as Director of Bryan Psychiatric Hospital in Columbia, SC, and then Medical Director of Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services in Las Vegas, NV, before becoming the Chair of Howard University's Department of Psychiatry in 1989.

Professional Experience:

August 2011 – present                Professor, Psychiatry Residence Training     					          Program, Saint Elizabeths Hospital Government of the District of Columbia Department of Mental Health

July 2004 – Present			Emeritus Professor Howard University, College of Medicine Washington, D.C.

July 1995 – June 2004		Professor, Department of Psychiatry Howard University, College of Medicine Washington, D.C.

June 1989 – July 1995		Chairman and Professor, Department of Psychiatry Howard University, College of Medicine Washington, D.C.

April 1988 – June 1989		Medical Director, Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services Las Vegas, Nevada

March 1987 – April 1988		Director, Bryan Psychiatric Hospital Columbia, South Carolina

July 1971 – February 1987	 	Professor, Psychiatric Faculty University of Kentucky, College of Medicine Lexington, Kentucky 1980 - 1981			Acting Chairman Department of Psychiatry

1979 - 1987			Professor of Psychiatry

1973 - 1987	Founder and Director, Training and Treatment Center for Rational Behavior Therapy.

Professional Experience (continued)

1974 – 1979		          Associate Professor of Psychiatry Director of Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Department

1971 – 1974			Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Director of Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Department

1970 – 1971		          Assistant Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine University of Wisconsin, Madison

1962 – 1966			Medical Officer, USAF

1958 – 1962			General practice of medicine Cocoa, Florida

Educational Background

Specialty Training:			Psychiatry Residency, University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, 1966 – 1968 Child Psychiatry Residency, University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, 1968 – 1970

Intensive Training in Behavior Therapy with Joseph Wolpe, M.D., Eastern Psychiatric Institute Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1968 Intensive Training in Autogenic Therapy with Wolfgang Luth, M.D.					Montreal, Canada, 1970

Special Professional Training:	Intensive Training in Sex Therapy with William Hartman, Ph.D. and Marilyn Fithian Center for Marital and Sexual Studies Long Beach, California, 1975

Internship:				Philadelphia General Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1957 - !958

Medical School:			Case-Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio, 1953 – 1957; M.D. College:				Talladega College Talladega, Alabama, 1949 – 1953; B.A.

High School:				Jones High School Orlando, Florida, Diploma 1949

Certifications and Licenses

Certification:				American Board of Psychiatry, 1973 Certificate # 12782

National Board of Medical Examiners, 1958, Certificate # 36510

Medical License:			Washington D.C., #17998 Virginia, # 0101051948

Areas of Professional Focus:

1.		Rational Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and Counseling

2.                  Relapse Prevention Treatment for Alcoholism and Other Addictions

3.                  Research-Based Concepts and Techniques of Rational Emotional Self-Help

Past Research and Training Grants, Principal Investigator

Title							Source					Grant

Correlation of Athletes’ Estimates of		University of Wisconsin Medical	        10.000 Pre- and Post – Performance Tension		School Research Foundation and with Urinary Catechol-amine			The Institute for Rational Living, Excretion and Athletes’ Performance (1969)	New York, N.Y.

Demonstrating the Effects of			Institute for Rational Living		         7.500 Rational Self-Help Groups (1970)			New York, N.Y.

Self-Help Alcoholic Research			National Institute on Alcohol	     406.779 Project SHARP: 1972 - 1975			Abuse and Alcoholism (Department		of Health, Education and Welfare)

Semi-Automated Self-Directed			Social Sciences Research		       10.000 Psychotherapy for Blacks (1972)			Corporation Evaluation of Ludiomil Protocol			Ciba Geigy Corporation	                 16.000

Training Manual for Rational			Commonwealth of Kentucky	        4.998 Behavioral Therapy, Kentucky			Department of Health State Correctional System (1975) Training Health Professionals 			U.S. Department of Health,	      18.213 In Self – Help Techniques in the 			Education and Welfare-Health Treatment of Alcoholics (1976)			Manpower Branch, Region IV

Training Health Professionals in 			U.S. Department of Health 	       9.651 S.A.F.E Sex Therapy for the 			Education and Welfare-Health Office Practice (1976)				Manpower Branch, Region IV

Training Health Professionals in 			U.S. Department of Health 	      9,150 S.A.F.E Sex Therapy for the 			Education and Welfare- Health Office Practic	e (1977)				Manpower Branch, Region IV

Older Life Drug Experience			National Institute on Drug Abuse	  391.949 Older: (1978)

Evaluation of Anafranil Protocol			Ciba Geigy Corporation    	              33,848 49 (1980 – 1981)

Evaluation of Anafranil Protocol			Ciba Geigy Corporation	 	     3,442 52 (1980 - 1981)

Evaluation of Ritalin Protocol			Ciba Geigy Corporation		  36,330 35 (1980 – 1981)

Current Major  Professional Interests

1.Research on Rational Self – Counseling with and without Professional Psychotherapy or Counseling.

2.Research on relapse prevention treatment techniques for alcholics and other substance abusing children and adults.

3.Rational Self – Counseling for enhancing the rehabilitative process of chronic and acute medical patients.

4.Effective, low – cost ways of making the classroom an emotional health improvement center.

Books

1.Maultsby, M.C. Rational Encounter,  a Research Project Publication, 1971, (out of print)

2.Maultsby, M.C. Handbook of Rational Self-Counseling, Lexington, Kentucky: Association for Rational Thinking, 1971. (out of print)

3.Maultsby, M.C. and Hendricks, A. You and Your Emotions. Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Self – Help Aids, Inc. 1974 (Later translated into Spanish, German, Swiss-German, Dutch).

4.Maultsby, M.C. More Personal Happiness through Rational Self-Counseling. Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Behavior Therapy Center, 1974 (out of print)

5.Goodman, D.S. and Maultsby, M.C.  Emotional Well-Being Through Rational Behavior Training. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publishers. Revised Third Edition 1977 (out of print)

6.Maultsby, M.C. Help Yourself to Happiness Through Rational Self-Counseling. New York: Institute for Rational Living, 1976. (Later translated into Swedish and Polish).

7.Maultsby, M.C. Guia Illustrada del Medico Para el Autotratemientio Emocional (Spanish version of You and Your Emotions, translated by Munoz, C., M.A. and Maultsby, R.O.) Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Self-Help Aids, Inc., 1977

8.Maultsby, M.C. A Million Dollars for Your Hangover: The Illustrated Guide for the New Self-Help Alcohol Treatment Method. Lexinxton, Kentucky: Rational Self-Help Books, 1979 (out of print). New version: Stay Sober and Straight 2001.

9. Brandsma, J.M., Maultsby, M.C. and Welsh, R.J. Outpatient Treatment of Alcoholism. Baltimore, University Park Press, 1980.

10.Maultsby, M.C. Your Guide to Emotional Well-Being (revised edition of the Handbook of Rational Self-Counseling). Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Self-Help Aids, Inc.,1980

11.Mautsby, M.C. Rational Behavior Therapy,  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1984. (Later translated into Polish).

12.Maultsby, M.C. Coping Better … Anytime, Anywhere, New York:  Simon and Shuster, 1986.

13.Maultsby, M.C. Parempia Tunteita…Rationaalisen itse-erittelyn opas  (Instant Better feelings without Drugs). Edited and translated by Laakso, J. and Manninen, R. Turku, Finland:  Varhaiskuntoutuksen tukisaatio, 1992.

14.Maultsby, M.C., Nyffeler, H, Vuorinen – Maultsby, R. Sie und Ihre Gefuhle (revised edition of You and Your Emotions). Druck Calligraphy, CH-3960 Sierre, Switzerland 2002.

Bibliotherapy Series as Related Materials

1.Maultsby, M.C. Freedom from Alcohol and Tranquilizers. Booklet 1: “Your Emotional ABC’s.” Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Self-Help Books, 1979.

2.Maultsby, M.C. Freedom from Alcohol and Tranquilizers. Booklet 2: “ImprovingYour Emotional ABC’s Rationally.” Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Self-Help Books, 1979.

3.Maultsby, M.C. Freedom from Alcohol and Tranquilizers. Booklet 3: “The ABC’s of Rational Self-Analysis.”  Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Self-Help Books, 1979.

4.Maultsby, M.C. Freedom from Alcohol and Tranquilizers. Booklet 4: “The Rational Use of the Brain.”  Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Self-Help Books, 1979.

5.Maultsby, M.C. Freedom from Alcohol and Tranquilizers. Booklet 5: “Wanting vs. Craving.”  Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Self-Help Books, 1979.

6.Maultsby, M.C. “The Professionals Guide to Rational Bibliotherapy.”  Lexington, Kentucky: Rational Behavior Training Center, 1981.

Papers Published

1.Bada, D.W., Driscol, T.E., and Maultsby, M.C. “The Role of the Symptom in Psychosomatic Disease.”  American Journal of Psychiatry  113:12 (1957):1081-1088.

2.Maultsby, M.C. “Against Technical Eclecticism.”  Psychological Reports 22 (1968): 926-928. 3.Maultsby, M.C. “Seven Reflections on Scientism and Psychotherapy.”  Psychological Reports  22 (1968): 1311-1312.

4.Maultsby, M.C. “Pamphlets as a Psychotherapeutic Aid.”  Rational Living 3:2 (1969): 31-34.

5.Maultsby, M.C. “Routine Tape Recorder Use in RET.”  Rational Living 5:1 (1970):8-23

6.Maultsby, M.C. “Systematic Written Homework in Psychotherapy.”  Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 8:3 (1971): 195-198.

7.Maultsby, M.C. “Written Homework for the Patient with an Emotional Crisis.”  American Family Physician  4:6 (1971): 69-75.

8.Maultsby, M.C. and Slack W.V.  “A Computer Based Psychiatry History System.”  Archives of General Psychiatry  8:3 (1971): 570-572.

9.Maultsby, M.C. “Rational Emotive Imagery.”  Rational Living 6:1 (1971) 24-26

10.Maultsby, M.C. and Graham, J.M. “Patient’s Response to the Use of Tape Recorders in Psychotherapy – A Clinical Case Study of 56 Patients.”  Journal of the National Medical Association 64:4 (1972): 375.

11.Maultsby, M.C. “Decreasing Prescription Suicides:  A Behavioral Approach to Irrational Fears and Insomnia.”  Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association 27:8 (1972).

12.Maultsby, M.C. and Steifel, L. “A Theory of Rational Behavior Group Process.” Rational Living  7:1 (1972): 28-34.

13.Maultsby, M.C.  “The Neurotic Fear of Being a Phony.”  Corrective Psychiatry and Journal of Social Therapy 18:4 (1972): 28-34.

14. 	Maultsby, M.C. and Graham, D.T. “Controlled Study of Effects of Psychotherapy on Self-Reported Maladaptive Traits, Anxiety Scores, and Psychosomatic Disease Attitudes."  Journal of Psychiatric Research 10 (1974): 121-132

15.Maultsby, M.C. “The Classroom as an Emotional Health Center.”  Social Learning  31:5 (1974): 8-11.

16.Maultsby, M.C., Knipping, P.J. and Carpenter, L.L., “Teaching Self-Help in the Classroom with Rational Self-Counseling.”  The Journal of School Health 44:8 (1974):  445-448.

17.Maultsby, M.C. and Gram, J.M. “Dream Changes Following Successful Rational Behavior Therapy.”  Rational Living  9:2 (1974): 30-33.

18.Maultsby, M.C. “Rational Behavior Therapy for Acting-Out Adolescents.” Social Casework 56 (1975): 15-41.

19.Brandsma, J.M., Maultsby, M.C., Welsh, R., and Hellen, S. “The Court-Probated Alcoholic and Outpatient Treatment Attrition.”  British Journal of Addiction (1975).

20.Maultsby, M.C., Winkler, P.J. and Norton, J.C. “Semi-Automated Psychotherapy with Preventive Features.”  Journal of the Internal Academy of Preventive Medicine  (1976): 27-37. 21.Maultsby, M.C., “Patients’ Opinions of the Therapeutic Relationship in Rational Behavior Psychotherapy.”  Psychological Reports 37 (1975): 795-798.

22.Maultsby, M.C. “The Evolution of RBT (Rational Behavior Therapy).”  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Rational Emotive and Behavioral Therapists.”  Chicago, Illinois (1977):  88-94.

23.Knipping, P.J., Maultsby, M.C. and Thomas, P. “The Technology for Using the Classroom as an Emotional Health Center.”  The Journal of School Health (1976): 278-281.

24.Maultsby, M.C., Costell, R.T., and Carpenter, L.L.  “Classroom Emotional Education and Optimum Health.”  Journal of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine (1976): 24-31.

25.Maultsby, M.C. “Parentism: A Behavioral Analysis and Rational Solution.”  Voices – Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists  12:4 (Winter, 1976 – 1977).

26.Maultsby, M.C. “Introduction and Summary of Rational Behavior Therapy – The Art and the Science.”  University of Northern Colorado Press, 1976.

27.Maultsby, M.C. “Combining Music Therapy and Rational Behavior Therapy.”  Journal of Music Therapy 14:2 (1977):  89-97.

28.Maultsby, M.C. and Knipping, P.J. “Rational Self-Counseling: Primary Prevention for Alcohol Abuse.”  Alcohol Health and Research World 2:1 (1977): 31-35.

29.Maultsby, M.C. “Helping Prisoners Help Themselves Rationally.”  Proceedings of the Twelfth Interagency Workshop, 1977 Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 1978

30.Maultsby, M.C. and Carpenter, L.L.  “Emotional Self-Defense for the Elderly.”  Journal of Psychedelic Drugs  10:2 (April – June, 1978): 157-160.

31.Gore, T.A. and Maultsby, M.C. “The Rational Alcoholic Relapse-Prevention Treatment Method:  A New Self-Help Alcoholism Treatment Method.”  Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly Vol. 2, nos. ¾ Fall 1985/Winter (1985/1986): 243.

32.Maultsby, M.C. “Teaching Rational Self-Counseling to Middle Graders.”  The School Counselor (January 1986): 207-219.

33.Maultsby, M.C. “Behavioral Prescriptions for Stress Disorders.” Medical Times (April 1986): 117-122.

34.Maultsby, M.C. “A Needed Change in Traditional Marriage Counseling.”  Alabama A.C.D. Journal Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring 1988) 5-12

.Chapters in Books

1.“A Relapsed Client with Severe Phobic Reactions,” pp.179-222 in Albert Ellis, ed. Growth Through Reason. Palo Alto, California: Science and Behavior Books, 1971.

2.“The Principles of Intensive Rational Behavior Therapy,” pp. 52-57 in J.L. Wolfe and. E. Brand, Eds. Twenty Years of Rational Therapy: Proceedings of the First National Conference on Rational Psychotherapy. New York: The Institute for Rational Living, 1977.

3.“The ABC’s of Better Emotional Self-Control,” in Charles Zastrow and Daw Chang (Eds.)  The Personal Problem Solver: Jamaica, New York: Spectrum Publications, 1977.

4.	“Emotional Re-Education,” in Russell Grieger (ed.) Rational Emotive Psychotherapy: Handbook of Theory and Practice. New York, N.Y. Springer Publishing Co.,1980.

5.“Rational Emotive Imagery: in Russell Greiger (ed.) Rational Emotive Psychotherapy: Handbook of Theory and Practice New York, N.Y: Springer Publishing Co., 1980.

6.“Rational Behavior Therapy in Groups,” pp. 169-206 in George M Gazda (ed.) Inno- vations to Group Psychotherapy (2nd Ed.) Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas,1981 7.Why American Blacks Distrust Psychiatrists,” in Samuel M. Turner and Russell T. Jones (Eds.) Behavior Modification in Black Populations:  Empirical Findings and Psychosocial Issues. New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1982.

8.“Rational Behavior Therapy,” in Samuel M. Turner and Russell T. Jones (Eds.) Behavior Modification in Black Populations: Empirical Findings as Psychosocial Issues. New York, N.Y. Plenum Press, 1982.

9.Maultsby, M.C. and Gore, T.A. “Rational Behavior Therapy”, Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Psychotherapy. W.Dryden and W. Golden (Eds.). London: Harper and Row 1986

10.	“Rational Behavior Therapy”: An Approach to Transcultural Counseling.”  In John Mc.Faden (ed.) Transcultural Counseling. Alexandria, Virginia: American Counseling Association, 1993.

11.     Maultsby, M.C., and Wirga, M. “Behavior Therapy,” pp. 221-234 in Friedman, H., ed., Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Vol.1, A-D, San Diego: Academic Press, 1998.

12.	Maultsby, M.C., “Taming the PIT-Monsters,” in Favorite Counseling and Therapy Homework Assignements, Rosentahl, H. (ed.), Accelerated Development, Taylor S. Francis, Philadelphia, PA 2000.

Special Professional Achievements

1.Creator of the technique of cognitive-behavior psychotherapy and counseling called Rational Behavior Therapy (see # 11 under books published).

2.Creator of the emotional self-help method called Rational Self-Counseling (see #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10--above under books published).

3.Creator of the New Self-Help Alcoholic Relapse Prevention Treatment Method (see #8 and #9 under books published and #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 under Bibliotherapy Series and Related Material).

Special Appointments and Recognitions

1968					Permanent Faculty Member, Institute for Rational Living, New York, NY.

1969Visiting Consultant on Rational Behavioral Counseling Student Counseling Service Center University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia

1970Visiting Professor, Department of Counseling Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan

1971	Consultant and Director of Training, Milwaukee Mental Health Association, Model Cities Program (designed to train socio-economically deprived 			people to become mental health workers).

1972 					Consultant on Minority Student Counseling Problems Project 75, Chicago, Illinois

1977Elected Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association

1978Examiner, Part II, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

1979Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee

1982Electected President of the International Academy of Professional Counseling and Psychotherapy

1985Visiting Consultant, Department of Psychiatry Provident Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

1985Visiting Professor, Virginia Polytechnical Institute Department of Counseling, Blacksburg, Virginia

1985Visiting Professor, Cleveland State College Cleveland, Ohio

1985Consultant, Washington Public School Counselors Washington, D.C

1985Invited Guest Speaker, Fifth International Commission For the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency World Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1985Invited Guest Speaker Third International Psychiatric Congress, Indonesia

1994Included in the First Edition of African-American Medical Pioneers by Epps, C.H., Johnson, D.G., Vaughan, A., Rockville, M.D., Betz Publishing Co.

2000Elected Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in recognition of significant contributions to Psychiatry

2002	Invited as Visiting Professor at the University of Omsk, Siberia, Russia to teach Rational Behavior Therapy.

2003	                                         Elected Distinguished Life Fellow of the American 					         Psychiatric Association in recognition of significant 					         contributions to Psychiatry