內容簡介
接受與承諾治療基礎指南：尋找被解放的思維
提高心理靈活性，為夢想努力，讓人生更精彩
接受承諾療法(ACT)是美國內華達大學臨床心理學教授海斯與同事於20世紀80年代末至90年代初創立的一種新的心理治療方法，超過數百項的研究顯示能有效改善慢性疼痛、減重成功率和偏執等心理症狀。
本書是海斯教授畢生作品的摘要，內容在幫助讀者透過ACT六邊心理治療過的更好及更快樂。透過這些過程幫助我們學會讓接納與我們的思想融為一體，發現生命的全新面貌與選擇的價值觀。同時海斯教授也分享許多有趣的研究結果，例如ACT如何有效減少人們在文書工作中的錯字，並減少消極情緒。這是一部關於全新型態心理治療最強而有力的作品，媲美現代心理學經典著作《脆弱的力量》和《心態致勝》。
Over the last 35 years, Steven C. Hayes and his colleagues have developed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with many hundreds of studies supporting the impact of his approach on everything from chronic pain to weight loss to prejudice and bigotry. A Liberated Mind is the summary of Steven's life's work which will teach readers how to live better, happier and more fulfilled lives by applying the six key processes of ACT. Put together these processes teach us to pivot- to "defuse" rather than fuse with our thoughts; to see life from a new perspective; and to discover our chosen values, those qualities of being that fuel meaning. Steve shares fascinating research results like how ACT techniques decreased typing errors on a clerical test or showed that positive affirmations actually increase negative emotion. And he weaves them with stories of clients and colleagues as well as his own riveting story of healing himself of a severe panic disorder, which is how the idea of psychological flexibility was born. A Liberated Mind is a powerful and important book about a new form of psychology, destined to become a modern classic of narrative psychology on par with Daring Greatly and Rising Strong by Brene Brown, or Carol Dweck's Mindset.
