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Quotes About Defusion

The constructive alternative to fusion is defusion, and the preferred alternative to experiential avoidance is acceptance.
~ Steven C. Hayes
Compassion and acceptance; stigma and defusion. As described thus far, acceptance and defusion seem, superficially, to be intrapsychic issues, but self-as-context expands their nature. Because perspective taking is social, it is not possible to take a loving, open, accepting, and active perspective on yourself without doing likewise for others.
~ Steven C. Hayes
Cognitive defusion was tested head-to-head against cognitive restructuring in the same chocolate experiment, and those who had gotten an hour of defusion instruction had three times greater odds of remaining "chocolate abstinent" in the face of a week of constant temptation.
~ Michael Greger