The changes that we can make in the culture can be there for people that we will never meet, that will never… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety,… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Antidepressant medications, you still have some depressive thoughts. Antipsychotic medications, you still have some psychotic symptoms for the vast majority of the… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
The prescribers very often overstate, oversell, and the detail people are only too happy to tell them to do that. This idea… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Feelings are only your history being occasioned by the present moment. If that's your enemy, then your history is your enemy. If… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
The definition of happiness being very emotion-oriented - the problem is that there's too many quick and dirty ways to chase that… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Let's take something like antidepressant medications. There's decent science saying it has an effect, but it's shockingly small after you control for… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I want good science, and I want it to be realistically marketed. I wouldn't like only two countries on the planet that… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Most people are hurt deeply by betrayals in relationships. It might be better to really get up against and sort of contact… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“If you were on a bus trying to go east in a maze of dirt roads in a large valley, you might not be… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology of the… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
Your history's not going to go away; it isn't the same thing as dirt on the floor or paint peeling off the walls; it's… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
I want good science, and I want it to be realistically marketed. I wouldn't like only two countries on the planet that allow pharmaceutical… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
The government ought to help out, because the average citizen can't go out and be doing reviews of the scientific literature. And focus on… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
The mental cognitive processes that we're targeting are ones that narrow human beings' repertoire and make it harder for them to learn to be… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
What keeps me up at night in a negative way is, if we don't solve the problems of the human heart and of the… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
There are times when you felt especially important to another person, or cared about or loved or accepted. Well, loving relationships aren't something you… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
I kind of look at what's on the T-shirts and I see another solution, which also worries me. I see "Just do it." "No… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
The definition of happiness being very emotion-oriented - the problem is that there's too many quick and dirty ways to chase that in ways… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser as to… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
Most people are hurt deeply by betrayals in relationships. It might be better to really get up against and sort of contact that caring,… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share
