Undermining Cognitive Fusion

[@thareal7820]

Wow this man is pure genius

[@arildbrkke3918]

great approach by the therapist! thanks for this!👍

[@gopeace4797]

Hayes sometimes talks about how Verbal Behavior got us to a mental age of 3, but in the first five minutes I'm seeing intraverbal responses that the client has created: when I'm at the mall (stimulus) I'm going to lose it (response). The diffusion technique is breaking down that intraverbal relation. Sigrid Glenn wrote about maladaptive verbal behavior back in the 1980s. The equivalence relations (or derived relational responses) are verbal behavior, they are operants. The beauty of Steve .Hayes is that he expanded stimulus equivalence and gave us therapy that is behavior analytic in nature for the masses.

[@MH-yu7gw]

Good way of putting this! From a fellow behavioural psychologist

[@ozztenn]

11:45 I assume he would have responded with "Oh, yes... I have totally lost it"

[@asafeplacepodcast2690]

Wow donald duck. Really nice to see a little humour used by the therapist to take away the strength of peoples self deafeating thoughts & feelings

[@whiteshadow59]

Mr. Anxiety, I like that. Anxiety isn't you, just a guy that pops into your mind every now and then trying to give you advice.

[@Polly_99]

Is this fake or is he real?

[@casario2808]

Indeed, acted out for the purpose of teaching