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Hayes talks like that at workshops around the world, and the mixture of his proselytizing and ACT's solid early performance in journals has created ACT votaries in at least 18 countries. Hayes expects 400 at ACT's London conference in July. (There are ACT therapists in most states; they...
When I first saw Beck at the therapy convention in November, I mistook him for a diffident patrician, an image he seemed to project with his neatly trimmed white hair, bow tie, tweed jacket, gray socks and grandfatherly laugh. In fact, Beck-the son of a Ukrainian socialist father and...
Beck did say mindfulness therapies are "worth a try," and he noted that he has always said acceptance of difficult thoughts can have a role early in therapy. But in the weeks after the convention, the debate between Beck's followers and Hayes' turned acrimonious. Having just returned from the...
For his part, Beck co-authored a paper in the most recent Clinical Psychology Review noting that cognitive therapy "is one of the most extensively researched forms of psychotherapy." The paper summarizes the results of 16 studies of a collective 9,995 subjects and finds a large effect for cognitive...
Reno, Nev., does not immediately come to mind as home base for a mindfulness guru, but Hayes has taught at the University of Nevada campus in Reno for 20 years. Driving to his house took me past a number of sad old casinos where you can find haggard gamblers trying...