Hi all, The last thread, starting with Monica, and with comments by Steve, Kelly and Frank has been very interesting. It connects with something that has been...
Niklas Törneke
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May 1, 2005 1:32 pm
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Part of this is born of rightly held skepticism. Part of it is, IMO, psychology's longstanding discounting of profound experiences typically characterized as...
Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
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May 1, 2005 2:25 pm
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Niklas, I really appreciate your comments and feel very strongly that this is an important discussion to be having. While I am convinced that ACT does indeed...
Yea, I get what you are saying. You could also say " well, conversion changes people, doesn't it?" Yes it does, and many times for the better I guess. I really...
Niklas Törneke
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May 1, 2005 3:03 pm
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Kelly, I feel you have raised some very important issues that people often have a ... psychology's >longstanding discounting of profound experiences typically ...
Hi Niklas In my opinion you perform lots of functional analyses with clients when you practice ACT (especially in the first -creative hopelessness- part), only...
In stigma workshop with therapists were used that method in talking about the TRAP of FEAR Trigger, Response, Automatic Patterns of Fusion, Evaluation, ...
I had the following thoughts about sharing/disclosure in public workshops. If my terminology is out of whack please correct me. If the trainer is in some way...
Tony Balazs
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May 1, 2005 6:05 pm
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Yea, I get what you are saying. You could also say " well, conversion changes people, doesn't it?" Yes it does, and many times for the better I guess. I really...
Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
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May 1, 2005 9:03 pm
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My personal opinion is that it works best when individuals do the work, and then share as a manifestation of that (if they choose). This sequence works: open...
It is one thing to point out that there are data that public sharing increases outcome in general, but quite another to say that it is a necessary component of...
patty bach
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May 2, 2005 3:45 am
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Hi list One thing that I found interesting is when participants in workshops are very quiet for two days and then, in the end with "tears in their eyes", tells...
Thomas Gustavsson
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May 2, 2005 8:50 am
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Good questions Monica. Lot's more depth to them than can be responded to in an email. But a few thoughts. First, are these experiences in and of themselves ...
Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
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May 2, 2005 11:44 am
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By the way Monica. I think I forgot to thank you for raising the questions you raised. They are very important. The questions you raised are, and will, be...
Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
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May 2, 2005 12:31 pm
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JoAnne: I have also noticed with OCD clients that their obsessional targets may be precisely those for which they hold the greatest life values. For example, I...
James Monroe
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May 2, 2005 1:48 pm
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Some distant but perhaps relevant findings may apply here. As I recall Irv Yallom was about the only person to do research on "encounter groups" with the...
From below Niklas wrote in part, "revivalism", "cultism" ... As I recall somewhere in the literature on "conversion," yes there is such a literature, there is...
The quick fix reminds me of the rock and roll star who is an overnight sensation -- after about 20 years of playing on the road. If you look at Stanton Peele's...
Kelly, I too am grateful for the thoughtful responses you and others have given to address the questions being raised here. That degree of willingness in ...
... Yes, I can see your point that they are different. The question that arises is whether it is helpful to take core principles of a therapy, transform them...
The data on experiential avoidance defined the way we do in ACT is extensive with normal populations. Thousands of normal subjects have been examined in scores...
I am looking for information that addresses using acceptance-based treatments (especially ACT) in the context of college/university populations. I have the...
I don't think experiential avoidance is always a "bad thing." However, acceptance and willingness can have applications to people with no particular...
Evan Forman and I are doing a pilot study of ACT vs. CBT for a student counseling center population. We presented some preliminary data at ABCT last year, and...
Herbert,James
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May 3, 2005 4:41 pm
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The claim is not that therapists' personal experiences make the therapy more effective (is that in writing somewhere?). The claim is that you are working...
I went to save this message and actually sent it. Whoops. Anyway to complete the final thought: we continue to explore ways of getting these processes...
A quick request to Australian list serve members Where have people purchased the practical guide to acceptance and commitment therapy and what price did they...
Gareth Furber
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May 4, 2005 1:37 am
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I haven't seen it locally--I actually had it shipped from Amazon (only took a couple of weeks to get here), and paid $64.60 US (about A$83) for the book and...
... Ditto that twice (for the Aussies). I tried several Australian companies over the net and couldn't find a trace. I got mine from Amazon. Jim Hegarty...
There has been a lot of interesting dialogue in this thread. Just a few further comments. I think it is important to separate two concerns here. One is with...
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