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...commitment part of acceptance and commitment therapy-living according to your values-sounds weightless at first. Many people are so depressed or lonely or caught up in daily life that they aren't sure what their values are. ACT therapists help you identify them with techniques like having you write your epitaph. They also ask you to verbalize your definition of being a good parent or a good worker. The therapist helps you think about what kind of things you want to learn before you die, how you want to spend your weekends, how you want to explore your faith...
...used to help chronic-pain patients get back to their jobs faster. But perhaps the most noteworthy finding was that 27 institutionalized South African epileptics who had just nine hours of ACT in 2004 experienced significantly fewer and shorter seizures than those in a placebo treatment in which the therapist offered a supportive ear. Even Hayes, who is not usually overburdened with modesty, was startled by that finding. He could only hypothesize about why ACT might reduce seizures: "You teach people to walk right up to the moment they seize and watch it." Somehow, he suggests, that helps reduce biochemical...
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 are listed at contextualpsychology.org. ACT is being used in a Tucson, Ariz., clinic, a Jefferson City, Mo., prison and an anger-management program in Minneapolis, Minn. A therapist in Spain has used it successfully to treat a 30-year-old with erectile dysfunction; a therapist in England has used...
...most prolific cognitive therapist has long been Beck, the University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist who first formulated the role of thoughts in depression in articles in 1963 and 1964. The recipient of virtually all his field's awards, Beck and his 51-year-old daughter Judith Beck, herself an esteemed psychologist, run the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research from a corporate building near Philadelphia. Decorated with handmade Amish quilts, the nonprofit feels more like a rural dentist's office than the headquarters of an international psychology movement. But the institute carefully guards the reputation of cognitive therapy. Because...
...elect of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (current president: Judith Beck), posted a message on the academy's listserv saying Hayes' language theory "sounds less like a 'science' than a frame of reference for a new religion ... Haven't we all been down that dark pathway before?" Another cognitive therapist, Bradford Richards, responded, "It reminds me a lot of a pseudoscientific cult of personal will...