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Posted by badhaircut on October 7, 2004, at 21:12:54
Has anyone had any experience with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? (ACT, said as "act".) It's a mindfulness-based psychotherapy developed in the 1990s by the behaviorist Steve Hayes and others. I just read the book ("Acceptance and Commitment Therapy", 1999). It's a different approach. Not insight-oriented, but not CBT, either. They call it "experiential," as in not avoiding your inner experiences like thoughts & feelings.
There's a web site, but it's not exactly easy to get a mental toe-hold in it: http://www.acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy.com/
Has anyone actually gone to a therapist who practices ACT?
Posted by 64bowtie on October 8, 2004, at 13:05:53
In reply to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?, posted by badhaircut on October 7, 2004, at 21:12:54
» bhc »,
ACT has bits and pieces of the "Outcome Thinking" and "Aesthetic View" works of David Peck, my mentor. I snagged just the ACT power point presentation under http://www.tinyurl.com/5zdz6 from the ACT website. Nice and short picture(s) of what ACT is offering.
Czek it out: What if self-esteem is only an abstraction? Aren't abstractions more easily induced than experiences? Aren't experiences and the empirical more ephemoral since they depend so much on unfolding conditions? Therefore, the efficacy of inducing the abstract onto the client, patient, subject, child, beneficiary, will be employed by parents, teachers, shrinks, and ministers, most often. This will be at the expense of our self-proclaimed notions of self-esteem and self-worth at times.
My remedy has been to seek self-respect; to seek out others who also seek self-respect; not settling for the 99% prevalent "intellectually induced self-respect" freely injuncted onto children by society. Authorities fully expect respectful behavior to be practiced by adults, whether they even have any inkling of what respect is and/or how it works in our lives. The sure-fire way to learn respect is to discover and practice self-respect first; our own self-respect.
Sad part, this ain't one bit new. Its only popular, a fad of the last 200 years. Intellectual induction of emotion isn't even talked about because its so subtle and so ubiquitous (everywhere). I had to do a lot of standing around watching and listening to people to even notice what David Peck suggested. He had learned it by being a shrink for 30 years. I had a "steeper climb" by not having clients pay me to learn stuff.
If you can stand to read more, I am caretaker of David Peck's intellectual legacy, his writings, published and unpublished. His writings on "Concept Of Self" were watershed for me. If you can see past my personality limitations, what I have shared, mostly here on the psychology board, make David's major points, as well as my embellishments.
Finally, I'm always on your side, no matter what!
Rod
Posted by badhaircut on May 13, 2005, at 13:36:03
In reply to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?, posted by badhaircut on October 7, 2004, at 21:12:54
I posted this last year, but in hope that someone Googling around might find it, I'll just sort of refresh it...
If anyone's familiar with "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" (or the underlying "Relational Frame Theory") and wants to talk, I'll meet you here anytime.
http://www.acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy.com/
http://www.relationalframetheory.com/-bhc
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