Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life

I've seen this recommended everywhere. Mum bought it for me years ago, and I never fully got through it. Seems to have stood the test of time.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is great. Parts of the workbook are also great, and it should have been condensed so that all the great parts were smooshed together concisely. But life's not perfect, and I still use the parts I love with patients often.

Powerful text for the therapeutic school termed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), applied to the detachment of imparted meaning from the experience of chronic pain. However, the author discloses late in the book that it is written as a religious book from his Buddhist priors. That provides context for his call to make commitments based on what he sees as subjective values. Outside the grammar of transcendence, these become flimsy over time because they are based only around a metavalue of rejecting meaning in the face of experience.