What Russ Harris thinks about Psychotherapy

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Australian physician and psychotherapist who trains therapists in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); author of The Happiness Trap and ACT Made Simple.

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   Our readingTherapy should change a person's relationship with painful thoughts and feelings rather than try to remove them; symptom relief then comes as a byproduct.

   Their wordsIn ACT, the aim is to transform our relationship with our difficult thoughts and feelings, so that we no longer perceive them as ‘symptoms’. Instead, we learn to perceive them as harmless, even if uncomfortable, transient psychological events. Ironically, it is through this process that ACT actually achieves symptom reduction—but as a byproduct and not the goal.

   ↗Embracing Your Demons: an Overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapyweb.archive.org 2nd of 6 in this piece