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...Your Mind & Into Your Life (New Harbinger Publications; 207 pages). But the book, which has helped thrust Hayes into a bitter debate in psychology, takes two highly unusual turns for a self-help manual: it says at the outset that its advice cannot cure the reader's pain (the first sentence is "People suffer"), and it advises sufferers not to fight negative feelings but to accept them as part of life. Happiness, the book says, is not normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Third Wave of Therapy | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...contrast, ACT tries to defuse the power of thoughts. Instead of saying "I'm depressed," it proposes saying "I'm having the thought that I'm depressed." Hayes isn't saying people don't really feel pain (he has felt plenty of it), but he believes we turn pain into suffering when we try to push it away. ACT therapists use metaphors to explain acceptance: Is it easier to drag a heavy weight on a chain behind you or to pick it up and walk with it held close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Third Wave of Therapy | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

Read "Talk Therapy for Kids' Pain: Better than Pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Third Wave of Therapy | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...when I flipped out, I knew I had done something. At the time I didn't feel I did something immediate." After her press obligations, Kwan returned to the Olympic Village, where she iced her groin and received physiotherapy and an ultrasound. As the day wore on, however, the pain only worsened, and Kwan said "The groin did not feel good at all." She began to realize that she might not be able to compete at the level needed to make the podium in Torino, much less capture the only gold medal that eludes her. "I don' t think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwan Withdraws from Olympics | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...Moeller told Kwan what she was expecting to hear. "I knew I was stiff and knew I was in pain. You don't have to be told you're in pain by someone else," she said. Moeller confirmed that the injury is a new one, and that Kwan' doctor had cleared her to compete in Torino after she had made a full recovery from the earlier injury December that prevented her from skating at the Olympic qualifier in last month. "I had to make the decision to withdraw from the team, and not compete in my third Olympics. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwan Withdraws from Olympics | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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