I learned (through class) that Rational Emotive Therapy involves direct challenging of the irrational beliefs. My prof went so far as to say that sometimes the RE Therapist would "insult" the patient's beliefs (ie: "How could you ever believe such a thing about yourself? What kind of person would think that? That's not the right way to think of yourself" etc.) whereas CBT is more...subtle?

I'm not sure how bang on his explanation was, because he presented REBT as something that was really raw and kind of brutal. But that's how it was presented in my university psychology class.

I think what I took from the lecture (Whether the Prof was biased, which he probably is, and spun REBT as something "worse" than it actually is) is that REBT is more "in your face" than CBT.

Am I anywhere near close?