If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would ask people to get with that feeling of insecurity, because after… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with your ability to take advantage of what's around you, or losing contact with your values for fear that… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
