Irrational Ideas (Dr Ellis, Rational Emotive Therapy)

Yes it does. And it makes it hard for people looking for points of entry into the discipline (having that trouble with psychoanalysis). Explaining things simply is a skill too, I think. And some people are therapists, and other people are researchers. And some philosophers are researchers, and other people are teachers. Not to say that they are mutually exclusive but sometimes people who are really very good at one of those aren't so flash at the other.

I'm not much of a teacher myself...
But I really like process...
And I guess that emerges over time in looking at the ordinary issues (or even the therapy issues) that people have.

Here is a link to the mindfulness book. In the beginning there was behaviourism, then cognitivism, then acceptance varieties etc. I'll admit that I just read what I could of it online and aside from that I've only read Linehan's treatment manual for BPD. I'm very taken by the mindfullness stuff and would like to read more... If only there were more hours in the day...

Not sure whether the essays are available from other sources...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159...lance&n=283155

Understanding is personal, explanation is social, and the two can be separated. I was trying to use a simplistic example for describing the idea that people utilize different kinds of truth to interpret their own world.