Career
He was instrumental in the formalization of Ellis" model of personality while coauthoring Ellis"s only college textbook. Abrams" research with Ellis into rational emotive and cognitive behavior therapies (Cognitive behavioral therapy) led him to propose that all successful psychotherapies were actually performing Cognitive behavioral therapy - irrespective of their stated theoretical orientation. After Ellis" death Abrams continued Ellis" work on sexuality taking an evolutionary perspective to love and intimacy.
This work reached fruition in his book on sexuality in press by Sage Publications.
lieutenant is among the very few texts on human sexuality taking an exclusively evolutionary perspective. Abrams took a new approach by interviewing many of the best known evolutionary psychologists such as David Buss, Doug Kendrick, Helen Fisher, and even the controversial late J. Philipe Rushton to provide multiple and often conflicting perspectives.
Prior to his work with Ellis, Abrams worked with people suffering from life-threatening illnesses and was the first non-gay psychologist to volunteer to counsel people with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome at the Gay Men"s Health Crisis in New New York Abrams currently practices in New Jersey and New York City and is an Adjunct Associate Professor Master of Arts program in psychology at New York University, teaching Modern Psychological Treatments and The Psychology of Sexuality.
He is a contributor to About.com and on the editorial board of Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts.