Hi Audrey et al - I'm picking up on something you said - "But 'to begin to lose our stories' I wonder if we could, and where that leaves us?" I'm not sure...
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May 1, 2007 11:54 am
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Hi Jason, Thanks for the great response to this "sticky" thoughts string...I really like what you are doing with the defusion. In our ACT groups, we sometimes...
Thanks Trym: Yes, that's right. I may be way off base in speaking about it in that way. There is too much background context to go into about that I think. I...
Jason Gosnell
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May 1, 2007 5:17 pm
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I agree - this is an important discussion. Defusing from thoughts that are clearly "irrational" is one matter. On the other hand, there are plenty of things...
We're starting a new study of an ACT related treatment and will be including the AAQ. Should we use the AAQ I or II? Are their any recent changes in the AAQ...
Interesting! Just how I see things when one thought sort of leads to another: you start by working on defusing one thought, and that thought just turns out to...
Yes, interesting (please bear with me if my computer program continues to cut off the final words in each line, thanks) Even though we know that the...
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May 2, 2007 8:23 am
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Some days ago Russ wrote: "However, my suspicion is that when self-as-context is made overt and explicit, as it is in ACT, then even more people will...
Hi all, I don't know if it's a proper defusion technique, but since I got a lot of positive feedback on it from clients, I dare to share it anyway. I named my...
GIJS Jansen
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May 2, 2007 11:39 am
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I am looking for an ACT therapist in the Birmingham, AL area . Please contact me back channel. warm regards, Kelly...
I would love to get some feedback on this as well. My lab and I use the AAQ in a lot of studies and I am never sure exactly which version to use. Sue ... ...
Hi, Hope this doesn't seem to wacky or nonsensical a question/issue, but here goes: I was trained at the U of MN and certainly have had a lot of experience...
Glaser, Theresa
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May 2, 2007 1:44 pm
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Hi everyone, I am currently completing the AAQ II article, which I will then send along to the other authors next month. (I have slipped by about one month);...
Theresa, I have had this same experience and have spent a great deal of time struggling with it. It is helpful to read about the difference between ...
Steve Mahorney
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May 2, 2007 2:10 pm
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After 25 years of practice in psychotherapy and training in a host of therapies involving diagnosis, I still struggle with the same issues that distance me ...
Theresa I think I read in Eric Fox's writing about philosophy the notion of "speaking across islands." So from one island there is the mechanistic (DSM) view...
... Hi Theresa, I can relate to this issue, particularly due the setting I work in. I work engaging young people experiencing psychosis in psychological...
Thanks, all of you, who responded to my comments about labeling. Another of my wishes for therapists (especially for applications to training therapists-and I...
Glaser, Theresa
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May 2, 2007 4:58 pm
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Theresa, You asked me to elaborate on the "show" part of my comment. I guess the first part of "show" for me has been veterans going to other practioners and...
My workgroup (lab, supervision team, ACT seminar participants), under the supervision of Kelly Wilson, have been playing with other ways to speak of clients...
I think Emily is exaggerating, I do not think this method is a million times more useful than the DSM. I have personally only found it to be 784,632 times more...
Thanks to Sonja for pressing send on the message about defusing from "I'm fat." It probably took gumption and made a really good point. Ruth Ruth A. Baer,...
Baer, Ruth
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May 2, 2007 9:34 pm
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Colleagues, Please excuse the cross-posting. The Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of WNC, P.A., a private practice group in Asheville, NC, is currently...
Hi Rainer, I think that if self as context is materialized it is no longer self as context. I have a little bit of data with persons experiencing delusions and...
Yes, whenever the person or persons across from us gets to be anything other than another human being JUST LIKE US we are likely to be in trouble. Regarding DX...