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Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life

The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

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Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life

By: Spencer Smith, Steven C. Hayes
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a new approach to psychotherapy that reevaluates our most basic assumptions about mental health, and details how ACT can help you to embrace life and everything it has to offer.

©2005 Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith (P)2011 Tantor Mental Health Mood Disorders Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health

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"If you're tired of standard psychological parlance and still frustrated with your quality of life, this book can be a godsend." (Martha Beck, columnist for O Magazine)
"Trying to 'change' negative thoughts through cognitive gymnastics is like trying to win a war single-handedly. Why waste a life trying the impossible? In Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, advocate Dr. Steven Hayes escorts the mildly depressed, angry, and anxiety prone through a new approach to handling suffering - universal human suffering caused by language's illusions. Rather than fighting off bad thoughts and feelings with internal pep talks, Hayes beautifully explains how to embrace those pessimistic and foreboding mental voices (much like welcoming home one's cranky, play-worn children), 'defuse' them with respectful attention, and commit to leading a purposeful life that includes their occasional ranting." (Amazon.com review)
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I haven't finished the book yet--I'm about half way through, but so far so good.

Some have criticised the reader so I'm writing this review just to address that. I don't have a problem with him. He reads very clearly. This is a text book, not a novel, and I think he does just fine.

Worthwhile listen

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As a tger assist this book helped me get conceptually very clear. the reading is a bit robotic which could be off putting for a user.

good to hear from. ACT originators

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This is a real life changer. Rather than a self-help book this gives the tools and the theory to help make sense of things. Audible is a great medium for this and I feel that I have had a real relationship with it that has been sad at times but amazing too. It has delivered!

This is not a quick read on a plane but.......

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What would have made Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life better?

I'm familiar and a fan of Steven Hayes' work, and was really looking forward to this. However the narration is poor, it at times feels like I'm listening to a computer generated narration like google map directions. Its early days, still getting through chapter one, but at this rate I'm unlikely to finish the book. If I do, it will only because I'm already 'a convert' to the ACT model.

Poorly Read

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See title. If you're looking for help, please look elsewhere. The incessant "these thoughts are not you, you are not the thinker of these thoughts" is New Age nonsense, that only drives listeners closer to despair yours truly included.

Stupid word games & patronizing metaphors

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