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 enlarge | Author: Steven C. Hayes
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 2403
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 206
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1572244259
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89142
EAN: 9781572244252
ASIN: 1572244259
Publication Date: October 2005
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 The Next Big Thing February 1, 2006
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
Psychological science continues to labor to improve upon psychotherapeutic and self-help strategies. While most self-help books claim to offer something new, different and effective, Get Out of Your Mind, truly represents the Next Big Thing. It offers a scientifically-based and empirically-validated approach that is novel and startling, while at the same time being remarkably sensible. It forces us to think about critical questions of human existance that we may never have grappled with before. What would happen if we stopped being consumed with controlling our internal experiences (for example, "lowering" anxiety) and instead focused on how to live the life we really want to have? Does our behavior truly need to be determined by the level of sadness or anxiety we feel? What do want our lives to be about? Is it possible to actually observe ourselves in the process of having thoughts and feelings? Is there a way to view thoughts, feelings, cravings, and sensations as simply products of our minds rather than as "us" or "truth"? Throughout this book, concepts are well-explained and illustrated through metaphors, examples, worksheets and experiential exercises. Whether you are looking for relief from psychological suffering, a way to enhance the way you live your life, or an intellectual and philosphical exercise about the meaning of life, this is a book worth reading and "doing."
 Make every moment count January 11, 2006
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
Life is precious and we are told to make every moment count. Yet many of us spend a significant portion of our lives trying to sort through the ghosts of our pasts, carefully planning to avoid future pain and disappointment, and attempting to make ourselves right, all the while missing out on our life as it unfolds. We desperately try all the tools that society hands us to achieve happiness and a fuller, more meaningful life, but these methods often produce short-lived gains or worse come at some significant personal cost. This book offers a novel approach to making every moment count. You will learn about how and why our most tried and true methods for achieving internal comfort can actually backfire and take us further away from our most valued experiences. More importantly, you will learn how to change your relationship with your internal experiences in a way that allows you to connect with your life as it unfolds.
Self help-also for therapists! January 11, 2006
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the kind of psychotherapy that is based on science. Science is not always easy to grasp and many find the basics of ACT a bit difficult. Look here,there is help! Even though this book is primarely written for the general public it has much to offer also professionals. In one way because also proffessionals fight with personals problems, of course, but also as an excellent introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as such. Have you read the original ACT book from 1999 and found some of it hard to grasp? Or are you just interested in ACT and want a somewhat easier way of getting the taste of it? This is the book to get!
All Is Clear December 7, 2005
52 out of 60 found this review helpful
I'm a relative newcomer to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a clinician and a non-scientist, so I have to admit that I've struggled with the underlying theory, Relational Frame Theory. When I've tried to explain/demonstrate RFT to clients, they've struggled too.
This book had ended all that. Instead of giving myself and clients headaches, I just talk about the gub-gub, (you'll have to read the book) and how it goes wooo, and all is clear.
The exercises are accessible-lighthearted and at the same time powerful and deeply humane. I've used them with clients and for myself.
But most valuable of all is the huge sigh of relief I hear in the room when it becomes clear to clients that we are all in this soup of language together and that their experience is--dare I say it? Normal.
Joanne Steinwachs, LCSW
Private Practice,
Denver CO.
A different sort of self-help book November 25, 2005
112 out of 118 found this review helpful
This is a different sort of self-help book. It's not just for depression, or panic attacks, or phobias, or how to stop eating or drinking too much, or how to improve your relationships, or how to get your finances in order, although it can help you with any of those things and many more. This book is about discovering what you care about the most, what your top priorities are in life, and about getting your life moving in those directions. It teaches you how to keep psychological obstacles, such as fears, worries, sadness, anger, negative thoughts, and bad memories, from getting in your way. Strangely, it doesn't tell you how to get rid of those obstacles. In fact, it shows how trying to get rid of them often makes them worse. Instead, it teaches how to work with them so they don't run your life, so that you can make room for them and go where you want to go. The book has many exercises that are sometimes funny, sometimes a little odd, and always illuminating and thought provoking. This is a different way of looking at life and its challenges. For people who feel that their lives aren't working and are willing to consider a new perspective, this is worth a serious look.
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