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In this article the rapid rising populariy of ACT and mindfulness based approaches in the Netherlands is explained from within a social and scientific context. Hypothesized is that the increasing question for controlability, taking the paradigm of evidence based practice in a dogmatic sense, focus on efficiency and economic saving and steadily growing influence of insurance companies on content of psychotherapies is driving therapists towards approaches in which they feel they have more freedom, and in which they experience they can do more valuable work for themselves and with their clients. Implications for scientific research on effectiveness and processes in ACT are discussed.