Resources

Here you will find links to educational and self help material that you may find useful. We have carefully reviewed each item and we know from clinical experience that people find them accessible and helpful.

The book links will send you to Amazon.co.uk We may recieve a fee if you chose to buy from amazon. 

The front cover of Get Out Of Your Mind and In To Your Life.

Get out of your mind and in to your life

This is a really well thought out self-help manual that will take you systematically through the components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Some people say it’s a bit wordy though.

Written by Steve Hayes. One of the people who first took a very complicated psychological theory called Relational Frame Theory and turned it into a Therapy that is changing lives.

You can work your way through the book on your own or use it as homework between therapy sessions. Some people find some of the exercises a bit tough, especially ones related to past experience. If you don’t like an exercise then skip it and come back to it another day. 

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Here’s Steve Hayes in action, talking about language, learning and Psychological Flexibility. Complicated, but stick with it.

The front cover of a self help book called the Happiness Trap
The Happiness Trap

This book covers the same material as “Get out of your mind”, but some people find it more accessible. Russ has a very clear and down to earth style and offers some catch phrases that can be very helpful to hold in mind. “Be present, know what matters and do what counts” being one of them.

The book will take your through the pronciples of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy while giving you some food for thought about how to live a full rich and meaningful life, even in the face of suffering.

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Russ has his own channel on YouTube. Well worth exploring. Here he is talking about happiness and other emotions.

The Way Out

Just what it says on the cover! This is a comprehensive guide to a revolutionary new approach to persistent back pain. In 2022 Alan Gorden and colleagues published the results of research on the effectiveness of Pain Reprocessing Therapy. The results were nothing short of remarkable. On average people had experienced chronic back pain for an average of ten years. Two thirds of people had low or no pain at the end of eight sessions. The book is a great introduction to the brain science around chronic pain and offersguidance on how to take things forward yourself.

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Here’s Alan Gordon’s colleague Dr Yoni Ashar talking about PRT. Interesting