Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give

you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature

a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. best. Today it's really great to have Stephen Hayes on the podcast. Stephen is the father of acceptance and

commitment therapy and is currently a Nevada Foundation professor in the

Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. He's an author of over 45 books, including his bestseller Get Out of Your Mind

and Into Your Life, and he has published more than 600 scientific articles.

Stephen's interests cover basic research, applied research, methodology, and philosophy of science.

He maintains an active laboratory focused on language pragmatics and semantic relations.

His recent applied research has been focused on the analysis of emotional acceptance methods in psychotherapy,

where he currently has a million-dollar grant to apply his methods in online therapy.

I'm really excited to have Stephen on the podcast today, and hope that you can join in the discussion by going to the psychology podcast.com.

Thanks so much for being on the podcast Stephen.

I'm glad to be here with you.

Oh boy, lots of we could talk about you do a lot of really truly

life-changing research so first of all thank you for doing such life-changing

research. I'm flattered by it but yeah we have tried to go out to the kind of the edges of where the

field might be and push a little bit on the inside of the bubble without popping out

into our own so yeah that's what was good it puts us into issues that have broad implications for sure so you this idea of acceptance and commitment therapy I was wondering how it has changed over the years.

In more recent years have updated the model much.

Well, it's evolved.

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