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It's a while back that I did my research, but I think it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectica
by mercer 9y ago
It's a while back that I did my research, but I think it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy that struck me as a kind of progression toward even more of the mindfulness/observational approach, and away from using your thinking to solve your thinking.
I also find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_ther... an interesting approach.
Either way I wouldn't argue that those approaches are better in all cases, but rather that they appear to draw even more from (Zen?) Buddhism than CBT does, and that for an atypical, anxious mind like mine they seem to work in a way that CBT doesn't. In fact, I've found that my anxiety was often worse when I actively applied CBT when I was in therapy.