Not meant to attack you; I just wonder how Rational Therapy (the other root of the cognitive behavioral therapy) is disappearing from the history of psychology.

Not meant to attack you; I just wonder how Rational Therapy (the other root of the cognitive behavioral therapy) is disappearing from the history of psychology. I just found about it recently, and was surprised to see how big thing it used to be decades ago, considering that these days one can study psychology and never even hear about it. Makes me wonder how much of the history of science is not about people who actually invented things, but about those who popularized them successfully. But this is not just in psychology; we have the Edison vs Tesla in physics, etc. It's like some compression algorithm: if there are too many inventors doing similar things, history will pick one of them and give him all the credit. No bad intention is necessary in this process; it's just that people don't care enough to remember all the details, and the simpler version is easier to remember. I wonder whether our descendants a few centuries later will remember this era as one where Albert Einstein discovered relativity and quantum physics, and sent the rockets to Mars.