Quick & Dirty ACT Analysis of Psychological Problems
Quick & Dirty ACT Analysis of Psychological Problems
Most psychological difficulties have to do with the avoidance and manipulation of private events.
All psychological avoidance has to do with cognitive fusion and its various effects.
Conscious control belongs primarily in the area of overt, purposive behavior.
All verbal persons have the “self” needed as an ally, but some have run from that too.
Clients are not broken, and in the areas of acceptance and defusion they have the psychological resources they need if they can be harnessed.
To take a new direction, we must let go of an old one. If a problem is chronic, the client's solutions are probably part of them.
When you see strange loops, inappropriate verbal rules are involved.
The value of any action is its workability measured against the client's true values (those he/she would have if it were a free choice). The bottom line issue is living well, not having small sets of “good” feelings.
Two things are needed to transform the situation: accept and move.