Book Review: Pratiquer l'ACT par le Clown [ACT through Clown]

Frontiers in Psychology

Mathieu Hainselin¹ 

关键词: acceptance and commitment therapy;    cognitive behavior therapy;    psychotherapy;    hexaflex;    happiness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00296

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

“Let it go…Let it go” is one of the key message of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), as well as the Frozen movie. My 2 years old daughter Elise is very good at both: singing and let it go. She is also a great clown, such as another Elise Ouvrier-Buffet, a professional clown and co-author with Jean-Christophe Seznec of the book reviewed here (Seznec and Ouvrier-Buffet, 2014). Putting ACT and clown together is unusual and can be surprising…except if you are already familiar with both ACT and clown. Contact with the present moment, committed action, acceptance, self as context, values and defusion are some core characteristics of the clown, and the six psychological processes ACT seeks to strengthen (Hayes et al., 2006; Hacker et al., 2016). The clown is listening to his body, sensations and emotions, instead of focusing on distracting parasite thoughts. Therefore he is a great example for patients, as well as for therapists. The first author wrote his clown skills enhanced his psychiatrist job. Now he wants to play, laugh and have fun during sessions. If life includes pain and death, clown and therapist have to deal with it and, likewise, help other people to do so. Because of these similarities, ACT and clown can learn from each other; this was obviously the authors' guidelines for this eight chapters book.

【 授权许可】

CC BY