Research Catalog

Title

Get out of your mind & into your life : the new acceptance & commitment therapy / Steven C. Hayes with Spencer Smith.

Author

Hayes, Steven C.

Publication

Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Smith, Spencer Xavier

Description

x, 206 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

"Get ready to take a different perspective on your problems and your life-and the way you live it. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a new, scientifically based psychotherapy that takes a fresh look at why we suffer and even what it means to be mentally healthy. What if pain were a normal, unavoidable part of the human condition, but avoiding or trying to control painful experience were the cause of suffering and long-term problems that can devastate your quality of life? The ACT process hinges on this distinction between pain and suffering. As you work through this book, you'll learn to let go of your struggle against pain, assess your values, and then commit to acting in ways that further those values." "ACT is not about fighting your pain; it's about developing a willingness to embrace every experience life has to offer. It's not about resisting your emotions; it's about feeling them completely and yet not turning your choices over to them. ACT offers you a path out of suffering by helping you choose to live your life based on what matters to you most. If you're struggling with anxiety, depression, or problem anger, this book can help-clinical trials suggest that ACT is very effective for a whole range of psychological problems. But this is more than a self-help book for a specific complaint-it is a revolutionary approach to living a richer and more rewarding life. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

New Harbinger self-help workbook

Uniform Title

New Harbinger self-help workbook

Alternative Title

Get out of your mind and into your life

Subject

• Acceptance and commitment therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Cognitieve therapie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ACT: What It Is and How It Can Help You -- Suffering: Psychological Quicksand -- The Ubiquity of Human Suffering -- Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Values -- Commitment and Values-Based Living -- Human Suffering -- Human Suffering Is Universal -- Exercise: Your Suffering Inventory -- The Problem with Pain -- Exercise: The Pain is Gone, Now What? -- The Problem with Pain: Revisited -- Living a Valued Life: An Alternative -- Why Language Leads to Suffering / John T. Blackledge -- The Nature of Human Language -- Exercise: Relate Anything to Anything Else -- Exercise: A Screw, a Toothbrush, and a Lighter -- Why Language Creates Suffering -- Exercise: A Yellow Jeep -- Exercise: Don't Think About Your Thought -- What You've Been Doing -- Exercise: The Coping Strategies Worksheet -- The Problem with Getting Rid of Things-Squared -- Experiential Avoidance -- The Mind-Train -- The Pull of Avoidance / Julieann Pankey, Kathleen M. Palm -- Why We Do What Can't Work -- Accepting the Possibility That Experiential Avoidance Can't Work -- So, What Are You Supposed to Do? -- Exercise: The Blame Game -- Exercise: Judging Your Own Experience: Examining What Works -- Moving On -- Exercise: What Are You Feeling and Thinking Now? -- Letting Go / John T. Blackledge, Michael Ritter -- If You're Not Willing to Have It, You Will -- Acceptance and Willingness -- Exercise: Why Willingness? -- Willingness and Distress -- Exercise: Being Willingly Out of Breath -- The "Willingness to Change" Question -- The Trouble with Thoughts / Jason Lillis.

ISBN

• 1572244259
• 9781572244252

LCCN

^^2005022640

OCLC

• 61229775
• SCSB-10389363

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library