Posted by badhaircut on May 9, 2005, at 10:44:04
In reply to Re: top CBT book, posted by pedrito on May 6, 2005, at 8:52:11
Pete—
You saw Dryden? Wow. What was he like, if it's not too personal to ask? I read your post on the other board that he was very smart. He must've had something to say about you still "feeling like crap" after 3 years of REBT.
If you're casting around for a slightly new approach, you might also want to look at "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" (ACT), which has some overlap with CBT but goes in a different direction. It emphasizes accepting bad thoughts & feelings since (it says) trying to manage them is self-reflexively doomed.
Albert Ellis recently gave ACT enormously positve endorsements, which is surpising to me since it doesn't care very much if a patient has irrational thoughts. It deliberately leaves them alone.
web site: http://www.acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy.com
(And welcome back.)
-bhc
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