Posted by pedrito on June 5, 2006, at 13:07:25
In reply to Hi, Pete » pedrito, posted by pseudoname on May 31, 2006, at 12:50:20
>> badhaircut = me. (Long boring story on the name-change.)
I owe you an email. I got one from you shortly before I left for Toronto to meet Dr Bob & 7 other Babblers at the pdoc convention.
Apologies. :-)
Aaaaah right, that makes sense! I probably should have put 2+2 together. No worries on not replying, we're all busy people. Even if the things keeping us busy, such as persistent unpleasant thoughts and feelings, are not what typically keep people busy =o]>> I wish ACT's revolutionary core ideas were more popular — or at least more widely considered. This is for selfish reasons. I think the (few) existing weaknesses and circularities and white lies that exist in ACT could be vastly improved and ACT could be made (even?) more effective after some broad-based, supportive-but-skeptical criticism and development.
Hmmm I'm not sure if I want to know about said lies/weaknesses/circularities but I am curious. I think I will proeed in ignorance... =o]
>> ACT's ideas are so easily MIS-understood. Over the weekend I drove 80 miles to a university library to get 4 journal articles comparing ACT and REBT, including one by Hayes and one by Ellis. Ellis has enthusiastically endorsed ACT, but it was clear from his article that he just doesn't get it! His "acceptance" is not mindful; his "context" is just the physical environment.
Heh excellent! One of psychologies' greatest minds doesn't get ACT. Mind you, he's so dogmatic and single-minded about REBT it doesn't really surprise me. I saw a therapist who is a good friend of Ellis (at the Ellis Institute) and he said Ellis was one of the most intense, focused individuals he had ever met.
>> Pete, I think you (jokingly) asked me if I thought Hayes had become a monster. I don't think that at all. I think he's pretty typical for very ambitious academics in highly competitive, non-unified fields like clinical psychology. Beck, Ellis, Burns, Dryden (as you've said), etc, etc, etc… they're all like that. The stories I've heard about Bruno Bettelheim make Hayes look like a milquetoast.Yes, it does seem that that ego is never far from brilliance/acheivement. That's why I have a very modest ego ;o]
>> Still, I'd be afraid to meet Hayes.
Yup!
>> Nice chattin’! Now, I go outside…
Ditto, good to chat about something so important in my life! No-one else I've "met" is willing to talk about ACT openly. Hey, if you can find another non Hayes acolyte-bot we have open discussion - woooo! ^^Did you make it outside? How long have you been couped up?
pete
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