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Building a Valued LifeTowards what matters even in the darkest times

A Reader's Guide to Psychology and Recovery

An independent explanation of psychology and recovery for participants, practitioners and general readers. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) provides the central direction, with supporting perspectives from dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), mentalisation-based treatment (MBT) and radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RO-DBT). Read it on its own or alongside therapeutic work; it is not a workbook or a prerequisite for a programme pack.

Written by Dr Eric Hadinata MBBS BMedSci FRACGP FAChAM. Published by Dr Eric Hadinata.

Building a Valued Life, A Reader's Guide to Psychology and Recovery, Version 1
A Reader's Guide to Psychology and Recovery · 307 pages

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Its 32 chapters include a seven-chapter addiction strand, alongside emotions, relationships, attention, values, patterns and continuing recovery.

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  1. 1 Understanding the treatment and making it your ownPage 7
  2. 2 How experience becomes a patternPage 16
  3. 3 Values, motivation and chosen directionPage 22
  4. 4 Acceptance and the struggle for controlPage 28
  5. 5 Attention, mindfulness and presencePage 34
  6. 6 Language, thinking and defusionPage 40
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