Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life : the New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy / Steven C. Hayes with Spencer Smith.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206).

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.

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This book develops acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary and exciting new direction in psychotherapy, into step-by-step exercises readers can use to get relief from emotional pain. Written by ACT's founding theorist, the book offers a self-help program proven to be effective for coping with a range of problems, from anxiety to depression, eating disorders to poor self-esteem.

English.

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