Mike Abrams is an American psychologist and co-author with Albert Ellis of several works on rational emotive and cognitive behavior therapy. 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 led him to propose that all successful psychotherapies were actually performing CBT - irrespective of their stated theoretical orientation. After Ellis' death Abrams continued Ellis' work on sexuality taking an evolutionary perspective to love and intimacy. 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 AIDS at the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York. Abrams currently practices in New Jersey and New York City and is an Adjunct Associate Professor MA 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. 

July 16th, 1953 (Age 70)