Hi gang: The article below is rather disturbing. I just sent the letter below to the editors of the New York Times in response. You might want to consider...
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a.zuellig@...
Nov 2, 2003 11:37 pm
Even more disturbing.... I believe the author, Lauren Slater, is a psychologist herself, having written "Welcome to my country: A therapist's memoir of...
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JayLuoma@...
Nov 3, 2003 2:44 am
FYI Just looked up this author on Amazon.com, just for curiosity's sake. It was interesting what I found. Here's what the reviews say about one of her books....
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John W. Bush
cbt999
Nov 3, 2003 3:36 am
It's clear that whatever was responsible for Slater's recovery from what sounds like a version of BPD, it wasn't exposure therapy ŕ la Barlow. Even so, the...
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Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Nov 3, 2003 8:26 pm
We've been working on the ACT Practical Guide and on an ACT training initiative (more on both later) but in the context of all that I've been trying to get...
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Jill Sloan
jill_sloan@...
Nov 3, 2003 11:13 pm
Hi everyone, I am a psychologist working in a multidisciplinary pain team. Our patients all have a chronic pain condition, usually comorbid with a range of...
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joseph_ciarrochi
joseph_ciarr...
Nov 4, 2003 1:33 am
Whilst steve H. and Kelly W. et al. have been working away to refine ACT training and theory, we too in australia have been quitely working away on a few...
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Lance McCracken
lancemm_uk
Nov 4, 2003 9:56 am
Jill: We have been developing an acceptance-based approach to chronic pain for a number of years. It started in 1995 when Steve H. put me in touch with a ...
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Rikard Wicksell
rikardwicksell
Nov 4, 2003 11:09 am
Hi Jill and pain interested list members, at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital (Karolinska Hospital) in Stockholm, we are developing an intervention...
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Jonathan W. Kanter
jonathankanter
Nov 4, 2003 3:33 pm
Lauren Slater also wrote an article for the NYTimes magazine called "Repress Yourself" on Feb 23, 2003. That article was even worse and potentially more ...
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John W. Bush
cbt999
Nov 4, 2003 3:59 pm
Slater seems to have a knack for near-misses. The contrast she should have addressed in "Repress Yourself" was between repression (chronic distraction?) and...
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Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
kwilson@...
Nov 4, 2003 11:54 pm
Dave Barlow just posted this to the sscp list. thought others might be interested. nice reply I think. Thanks to everyone taking up this thread, and...
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Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
kwilson@...
Nov 5, 2003 1:12 pm
here is another bit from Bill Sanderson (from New York) on reactions to the article. again from sscp. funny me thinks. I have to say that I was interviewed a...
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Jill Sloan
jill_sloan@...
Nov 6, 2003 7:24 am
Hi everyone, Thanks to all for assistance regarding using ACT for chronic pain. It is wonderful to have such a supportive group of people on this list. Jill...
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Peter Thorne
contactpeter...
Nov 6, 2003 9:34 am
Hi to all ACTors everywhere Does anyone have experience of using ACT with people who are severely obese? Is anyone aware of ACT protocols for work? The...
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ivanpsi
Nov 7, 2003 8:12 am
Hello, I´m Iván from Spain. Anyone of you have information or articles wrrittien about how to change oppinions in grooups using relational frame theory?. My...
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Douglas Fogel
doug_fogel
Nov 7, 2003 2:04 pm
Hi all, I have just begun treatment with a client with a severe stuttering problem. I have heard people have had interesting results with paradoxical...
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Doug Woods
dowoods2003
Nov 7, 2003 2:11 pm
There are behavioral interventions that have been used to target stuttering. Regulated breathing is the name of the treatment, and we did a review of it in...
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Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Nov 7, 2003 4:33 pm
Based on back channel feedback from just about everywhere I've tweaked that ACT "hexaflex"; model to make it more understandable. A slightly more refined...
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cyberman_55555
Nov 8, 2003 5:58 am
To start off, let me introduce myself...my name is Chris and I'm a seventeen-year-old high school student in mid-Illinois (A few more months and I graduate)....
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Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Nov 8, 2003 12:50 pm
Wierd that we had two requests for advice back to back. What I've done with post like this in the past is to let them know the actual purposes of the list back...
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bfsk1nner
Nov 8, 2003 4:36 pm
Not only is it weird that 2 requests have come in back to back, the similarities between the letter structure leads me to wonder if the same person wrote...
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robbhb@...
robbhb
Nov 9, 2003 6:42 am
First let me note that I thought Kelly’s description of standing on one side of the room, walking to the other, and then asking "Now, to what do the steps...
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joseph_ciarrochi
joseph_ciarr...
Nov 9, 2003 10:33 am
nice point hank (your emails always inspire me to write). As a recovering realist...... The interesting thing about realists is how strongly they often ...
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Kelly G. Wilson
kwilson@...
Nov 9, 2003 10:57 am
Nice post Hank. Dewey was one I read very closely beginning as an undergrad at Gonzaga University. In fact, the first paper I ever gave at ABA examined the...
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Carlos Belda Grindley
grindley@...
Nov 12, 2003 8:06 pm
Hi folks, Does anybody knows if this book is available? I can´t find it at Guilford nor Amazon sites Hayes, S.C., Follette, V. y Linehan, M. (in press)....
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robbhb@...
robbhb
Nov 13, 2003 3:33 am
Yes, one might even say that an important part of "emotional maturity" it the ability to well tolerate the discomfort of "not knowing" especially when there's...
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Gerhard Kugler
praxis@...
Nov 17, 2003 5:19 pm
Hi, reading about dirty discomfort feelings in the ACT book I wonder if there is only a useful distinction between clean and dirty discomfort. To have distance...
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Pat Bach
drpat64
Nov 17, 2003 7:35 pm
Gerhard wrote: reading about dirty discomfort feelings in the ACT book I wonder if there is only a useful distinction between clean and dirty discomfort. To...
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Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Nov 17, 2003 9:43 pm
The true source of misery has been discovered. Thanks to Kenneth Cole for the link http://www.astonishedhead.com/images/OVOID.swf Pretty funny bit. If you have...
