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The Silly Mind is a well-written, lucid and humorous description of how we create our own emotional disturbances and what we can do to undisturb ourselves. Authors/therapists David Lima and Donald Scobel made a startling discovery ten years ago that revolutionized their psychotherapy practices. They saw that when their clients acknowledged the "absurdity" of their own beliefs as well as the beliefs of others, their emotional distress was immediately and significantly reduced. This one acknowledgment had a profound effect on their clients emotionality regardless of situation or type of distress. Websters New Collegiate Dictionarys second definition of absurd helped to solidify Limas and Scobels psychotherapeutic use of the absurdity concept. The definition goes like this - "The state or condition in which a person exists in an irrational and meaningless universe and the persons life has no meaning outside of his or her existence" - no universal meanings, no universal truths - including our own! The authors have written about this discovery and their enormously successful approach in The Silly Mind, Learning to Take Life More or Less Seriously. The Silly Mind is now available to help

Author

David R. Lima, Donald N. Scobel

Publisher

Super Six Publishing

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781893733015

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Medicine