I am also interested in parallels between Gendlin's focusing and ACT. I am not an expert in either approach - indeed my knowledge of Gendlin's work is based...
David Chantry
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Mar 1, 2004 11:15 am
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FOcusing is alive and well. Try: http://www.focusing.org/ Kate Partridge Dr. Kate Partridge 215 Piccadilly Street, Suite 206 London, Ontario N6A 1S2 Tel:...
Dr. Kate Partridge
kpartridge@...
Mar 1, 2004 11:25 am
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It's a strength to be aware of your underlying philosophy. Functional contextualism seems to be a good choice. I have some questions though, beginning with...
De Groot, Francis
francis.de.groot@...
Mar 1, 2004 12:43 pm
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Joe, I couldn't help thinking of koans as I was reading your email. Koans, from an ACT perspective, are really defusion exercises because they force the mind...
santanellodz@...
Mar 1, 2004 2:40 pm
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Hi all. I have had a bit smaller numbers for the march workshop than what I was anticipating. I am seriously considering canceling and pushing to a some later...
Kelly G. Wilson
kwilson@...
Mar 1, 2004 4:57 pm
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Garden variety ACT client: "Anxiety is bad; I am bad and my life will not get better until I get rid of this anxiety" Read-the-RFT-book ACT client: "Cfunc...
Focusing is linked to the experiential psychotherapies more generally. Check out the "Focusing Institute" and you will see Les Greenberg and folks like that...
Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Mar 1, 2004 9:25 pm
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Fun to read the "beginners" threads On Ch 1 I'm not sure about the logical syllogism variants ... you know, animals have it great, humans don't, humans have...
Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Mar 1, 2004 10:04 pm
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Hi Joseph I agree that studying RFT is itself a defusion exercise that increases one's awareness of languaging as it occurs. I remember reading an article in...
Dermot & I traded posts on this very subject in the RFT forum several months back. Understanding RFT requires a focus on the process of languaging, as opposed...
I'm wondering if anyone out there has psychometric data on the Brief Symptom Inventory (i.e., reliability, concurrent &/or discriminant validity)--I'm using it...
I'm crossposting this to the RFT list. A "sentence" is not a technical unit in RFT, but a complete relational network is ... and in most cases the two are the...
Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Mar 2, 2004 1:35 am
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Hi Patty Whatever suffering the client comes in with, it can not be worse than the suffering of studying RFT. All you have to do is get them to read the...
Hello Joseph, So re Suffering, ACT, and RFT, we can truly say that "the solution is part of the problem"! On a more serious note, while RFT can itself be...
Just came across a study (& apparently there are a couple of others that have also found this) showing distraction during exposure led to greater anxiety...
Distraction is a very complex issue. Distraction can mean attraction to other things response variability and flexibility contact with other aspects of the...
Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Mar 2, 2004 4:58 am
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Hi folks, I've been trying to break the fundemental ACT question into parts and squeeze it onto a single sheet of paper. I think I've done it (though I...
Patty, Would you mind giving a "translation" of this analyis because I am not following "III B" and, I guess f1, f2, & f3 are functions of some stiulus but I...
My point was somewhat more analogical/metaphorical...and I admittedly began with an attempt to 'translate' the RFT 'equation' for transformation of stimulus...
In terms of the thread on distraction... I thought the following excerpt from a manuscript comparing ACT and DBT might be helpful. The context is discussing...
Jacqueline Pistorello
pistorel@...
Mar 2, 2004 7:56 pm
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This post made me laugh--I am a layperson/non-psych. professional, who's interested in ACT because it seems helpful to me personally. Whenever RFT becomes a...
krice43@...
Mar 3, 2004 2:41 am
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I'd appreciate referrals for good therapist in Bergen County NJ. Someone with expertise in eating disorders would be particularly good. This is for a 30 y o...
Lizabeth Roemer
lizabeth.roemer@...
Mar 3, 2004 5:50 am
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I apologize for using the group to do this, but is Mark Worthen on this list? If you are, please email me backchannel when you get a chance. Thanks. Trent ...
Hello everyone - just wanted to let you know that I'll be doing a one-day, introductory ACT workshop in the Baltimore area on April 29th. We're starting with a...
Listmates: Just thought some of you might be interested to know that the most recent issue of Science has a special section on the evolution of language that...
What is the social/verbal context? My understanding of this concept is that it is the accumulated history of what we have been told by other people about the...
I'd like to pull together a list of folks who have run training workshops in ACT. If you've conducted trainings, could you contact me back channel and let me...
Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Mar 3, 2004 8:11 pm
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Just a quick clarification: My earlier post about ACT training was about folks training therapists to do ACT. Some have replied about the clinical groups they...
Steve Hayes
hayes@...
Mar 4, 2004 1:42 am
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... 60/40 ... ... I'm not sure if everybody is ready for this....There seems to be a bit of a gulf between the ACT theorists and practitioners (based on what...
To joseph and others I speak as a student, one who is grappling with both RFT and ACT. For me, the journey with ACT is considerably more rewarding initially...
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