ACT and RFT in Relationships: Helping Clients Deepen Intimacy and Maintain Healthy Commitments Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory by Dahl JoAnne & Stewart Ian & Martell Christopher & Kaplan Jonathan S

Author:Dahl, JoAnne & Stewart, Ian & Martell, Christopher & Kaplan, Jonathan S [Dahl, JoAnne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781608823369
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2014-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

Summary

Language enriches the experience of love and intimacy, but it also creates problems. In this chapter, we focused on entanglement with language. Fusion with self-as-content is a potential danger in intimate interactions. Elaborating on this concept, we broke self-as-content down into a number of aspects that can be particularly problematic in intimate relationships. These different “language traps,” in turn, are based on different forms of verbal fusion, including fusion with life roles, fusion with rules, and fusion with (thoughts about) emotions. ACT suggests that the alternative to fusion with self-as-content is mindful awareness, including self-as-process, which helps people defuse from language traps in order to act in accordance with their values. We return to this idea later on, when we examine the ACT prescription for healthy relationships. In the next chapter, we examine a second potentially problematic phenomenon within intimate relationships: psychological rigidity.

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