If you occasionally consult books or articles on ACT, CBT, or the behavioral approach, you may have seen references to the theory of evolution from time to time. And perhaps these references may have surprised you. What does natural selection…
You may have seen recently the numerous publications of Steven Hayes -founder of ACT and Relational Frame Theory- about the centrality of evolutionary theory to the understanding of symbolic thinking and the promotion of pro-social behavior. I myself have published…
In our everyday language, we often confuse “acceptance” with “letting-go”. For both terms, we understand that it is a question of not unnecessarily opposing the painful events that cross our path. The underlying hypothesis is that unnecessary suffering stems from…
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.…