Language and Emotion with Yvonne Barnes-Holmes

Show Notes

Psychologist and researcher Yvonne Barnes-Holmes joins Nick to discuss the role of language in mental health and human suffering, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and the state of psychotherapy in the 21st century.

Show Notes

• The power of language for mental health and suffering
• Thought-Identity Fusion
• Learning histories and narrative habits
• Reading and social perspective-taking
• The Cat in the Hat
• False belief
• Does reading novels lead to psychological flexibility?
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Meta-Cognitive Therapy (MCT)
• Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
• Functional Analysis
• Behaviorism
• Cognitive Revolution
• B.F. Skinner
• Iatrogenics
  
  You can learn more about Yvonne and her work here:
• Website

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