Cognitive Defusion

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Long time no post. Where are you from?

Alex; are you still around?

My grandson 3 years, 10 months. At preschool, he has exhibited avoidance and anxiety. For example, when given an evaluative “test,” he clams up and disengages eye contact with the questioner. Also, on field trips to the city library, he was so fearful and crying so much that the teacher had to walk him back to the preschool. How best to get an accurate diagnosis in the Houston/Galveston, TX area? Is it enough to talk to the pediatrician or should the parents find a counselor/psychologist?

Hello Alex, I am an ACT Trainer with ACBS, and with your permission, I'd like to use your relational framing diagrams on anxiety in my training events. I can list your website address on the slide if you like. Please let me know if this is okay with you. Thank you, Lou Lasprugato

Hi! I'll be applying for clinical psych PhD programmes in the upcoming application cycle. I'd like to e-mail my POIs and see if they're accepting students and to find out more about their current research programmes. However, I am not from the US, so I'm not that familiar with the American school timetables. Could I ask when would be a good time to start contacting them? July/Aug? Thanks! :)

You were the one who (unintentionally) influenced me to get therapy instead of only medication for my depression/schizophrenia/dissociation. My fourteen-month mark without any kind of episode just passed. I thought that I was basically doomed because I had a chemical imbalance- which I may, for the psychosis, but the depression and dissociation were results of my poor coping skills. You made me realize that I wasn't broken. Thank you so, so much.

Hi! I want to be a neurosurgeon someday, do you reckon I should take psychology OR a biology major as my pre-med? Thanks a lot!

Hi! Your blog inspired me to do my critical thinking assessment on exposure therapy. As you know, despite evidence supporting its efficacy, many therapists are reluctant to use exposure therapy due to many inferential and reasoning errors (based on subjective perceptions/experiences). So I argued for the importance of critical thinking in psychology, based on this specific example of exposure therapy. I guess I'm writing to thank you for running this insightful and thought-provoking blog! :)