We try to fight against stress when it might not be the main problem. CBT has long focused on negative emotions, with the goal of helping patients to soothe these emotions whenever they become too difficult to handle. Considerable outcomes…
After an auspicious period during which the effectiveness of new CBT approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), has been tested on the majority of disorders, more and more articles are looking now into theoretical and epistemological aspects of the…
Although this will certainly take a little bit of time, the end of the DSM, and the categorical approach in general, has begun. Several signals suggest this. To begin, there was the denunciation of numerous flaws in the diagnostic approach.…
Quarantine might allow us to handle this epidemic safely, but it also takes away our ability to engage in a number of activities that typically nourish and allow us to flourish. Of course, during this worrisome time, you might be…
I was recently surprised to discover an article I co-authored cited by Aaron T. Beck. This is ironic as this article has nothing to do with ACT or contextual behavioral science (it was a work on a pleasure scale in…
In a recent editorial for the Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, I called for a return to a strong interaction between clinical practice and fundamental research. Constitutive of CBT, this dialogue between research and clinic tends to fade away.…
Restoring meaning to existence, through the work on values, is one of ACT’s goals. We seek to help patients come back into contact with that which makes them thrive, which animates them. But there is much we don’t know about…
The concept of psychological flexibility refers in the end to an apparently simple question: when is it appropriate to persevere, or conversely, to move on? When does persistence turn into stubbornness and become counterproductive? This is a thorny question because…
In the behavioral approach, we are very interested in the consequences of behaviors, because they determine future behaviors. In particular, we look at the frequency in which these consequences occur. Does a significant consequence appear every time I carry out…
Graduated exposure is a therapeutic method which has proven to be widely effective in all types of psychological disorders relating to fear. This approach, however, contains a significant paradox: it proposes to place someone in contact with that which they…