LEAVE YOUR MIND BEHIND
Book ID/图书代码： 09700007B16435
English Summary/英文概要： We typically have little control over our thoughts, but we often invest them with a lot of authority-even when they contradict what our experiences tell us to be true. Take a moment right now and think "There’s a hungry grizzly bear sitting next to me." Chances are you didn’t take that thought literally and run screaming from the room. But what if instead you had thought, "I’ll never get a better job," "I’m boring," or "No one loves me?" Just like that terrifying grizzly, these more garden-variety thoughts are just words and pictures that pop into our minds. But often we take thoughts like these literally and let them trick us into avoiding the lives we really want to live.
This book offers a collection of light-hearted practices readers can use to learn to observe their thoughts without getting caught up in them. Each practice is grounded in a component of the new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) called cognitive defusion: the process of "de-fusing" or not identifying or becoming one with your thoughts. Sometimes downright strange-imagine yourself hearing your thoughts in the voice of a headless monster!-these activities don’t seek to stop or control problematic thinking. Instead, they work to show readers how to observe thoughts without judgment and learn to live with the confounding and marvellous word-making, story-telling machine that is the human mind.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人類一向無法控制自己的思想，甚至任由思緒淹沒理智。假如你放慢腳步，想像有隻飢餓的灰熊就在身邊，說不定你真的會忍不住尖叫，然後奪門而出。如果這隻灰熊的想像，變成了日常生活中腦袋裡常冒出來的負面想法，像是「我再也找不到更好的工作」、「我好無聊」、「我是個沒人愛的人」，就算不想成為這樣的人，最後也許會弄假成真。本書提供一系列的輕鬆練習，每個練習根據全新的接受與實現療法(acceptance and commitment therapy)：「放鬆思想」(cognitive defusion)編寫而成。主旨並非找尋負面思想的根源，或教您如何停止且控制負面思想，而是讓讀者學會不帶任何成見觀察自己的想法，並與這些混淆視聽的思緒和平共處。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Matthew McKay為加州專業心理學校(California School of Professional Psychology)博士，以及美國柏克萊大學臨床心理學研究所(Wright Institute)教授，私人執業專長為治療焦慮、憤怒、憂鬱的症狀。曾獨自出版或與他人合著超過二十五本著作，包括《跟壓力說再見》(The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook，哈佛企管出版)、《何必對孩子動怒》(When Anger Hurts Your Kids，新迪文化出版)、《人際溝通》(Messages，桂冠出版)、《心囚》(Prisoners of Belief，耶魯國際文化出版) 、《自尊心的改造訓練》(Self-Esteem，世茂出版)、《溝通圓滿意》(Couple Skills，幼獅文化出版)、《輕鬆一下》(The Daily relaxer，海鴿文化出版)等書.
Catharine Sutker為舊金山灣區的編輯與自由作家，曾與Matthew McKay博士合著The Self-Esteem Companion、The Self-Esteem Guided Journal、The Self-Nourishment Companion。
Matthew McKay, Ph.D., is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. He is the author and coauthor of more than twenty-five books, including The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, Messages, When Anger Hurts, Self-Esteem, and The Self-Esteem Guided Journal. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. In private practice, he specializes in the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety, anger, and depression.
Catharine Sutker is an editor and freelance writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the coauthor of The Self-Esteem Companion, The Self-Esteem Guided Journal, and The Self-Nourishment Companion.
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