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The link to the written version and bibliography (drstephenbacon.com/Articles/resolving.pdf) isn’t working. Could you update it please? I heard you on The Radical Therapist and UTOKing and am looking for links to the studies you referenced. Thanks!

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didn't understand a thing....either everything you were talking about was wayyy above my head + level of understanding....or its bullshit.

....so I should do some lsd...? 🤣🤣🥳🎉🎉 But in all seriousness, what do the Taoists contribute to all this (if anything)? Maxiumum respect Baconator ❤

omg this is so good....cannot believe there is not more likes/comments...this is pure gold (yes I am constructing it that way). Didn't even know I had a goddam elephant! lol. I have a little elephant story that I once heard that might be relevant here: *A gentleman was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cages or held by the use of chains. All that was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to one of their legs. As the man gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily have done so, but instead, they didn’t try to at all. Curious and wanting to know the answer, he asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing there and never tried to escape. The trainer replied; “When they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”*

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This opens a lot for me, as a non-academic seeker. The perspective of constructionism expands my viewpoint of psychological/metaphysical possibilities and coincides with my recent experiments in self-healing. Watts' "The Wisdom of Insecurity" and Eastern thoughts and religions have been mainstays in my experiences to contradict Hoffer-described "The True Believer." Adding 'constructed change' means a lot to me. Thank you.

Thank you for this series, Dr. Bacon--glad the algorithm directed me to your channel. I am currently a student at Fielding, immersing myself in Gergen's work and exploring other Taos authors. Your applications have been indispensable to my understanding of the potential of this movement in clinical practice and as self-help. I am curious if you are informed by Philip Rieff's distinction between therapeutics and charismatics? "Typical Apollonian cultural member" at 18:40 seems analogous to this concept, and your definition of charisma as "ability to embody wisdom and compassion" in the introduction of your book strikes me as very similar as well.

Given the ways research is often biased towards confirming the effectiveness of both medications AND therapy I would challenge the assumption that therapy is effective. People can believe something has helped them. I’ve found literature that states therapy relies on a belief in a “curative effect.” Those who don’t feel this can be labelled difficult and resistant. People can leave therapy feeling worse. For some it can be destabilising and result in long term harm. There is a strange certitude amongst professionals. A widespread over hyping off therapy as effective. It supports an idea of locating problems within an individual. The denial of real world inequality and oppression of minority groups is played out in blaming the client. Good intentions do not excuse the huge harm to many people. Many of the foundations therapy is built on are fraudulent. It has become a religion and a partner in containing the human suffering resulting from a society that protects the rich and powerful and stigmatises the Victims. A utopian view of therapy has more to do with the fantasies of those doing it and those seeking it.

Much enjoyed your presentation. The specific theories and technique approach is the marketing scam of the profession. I spent 45 years as a psychotherapist. Started out trained in family systems therapy back in the 60's. Gestalt, Bioenergetics, Reichian analysis, psychodrama, several approaches to couples and marital therapy. Encountered Solution Focused Therapy and the common factors research around the same time--late 90's. That was the watershed.I saw Solution Focused techniques as a good fit for how I could best build a working alliance, guide clients to "discover" skills and strengths they already had to facilitate and motivate them to use those skills, strengths and resources to make changes they came to therapy for help in making. And in all of this the powerful "story shifting" questions of SFT produced shifts in how the clients viewed themselves, their situations, their goals, and their capacity to generate desired changes. And it was totally fortuitous that I took a 5 day workshop in Solution Focused Therapy with two people and a third guy was there who was moving away from pure SDBT. His name was Scott Miller. We became friends, he helped my wife and I get our book on couples therapy published by Norton and that made all the difference.

Thank you for this recording ... very much appreciated!

Hi Stephen, thank you so much for all of these videos. I made through your whole series in a couple of days and I was so moved! I do have a question for you. It seems that a necessary ingredient in all good therapy is the ability to summon the client's built-in capacity to heal themselves. Is there a name for that force? The best I can think of is the Psychological Immune system, but I'm not sure if that's really correct. I imagine there must be a term somewhere for this idea. I'd love to know if you have any ideas. Thank you again!

I feel this distinction - between fundamental and constructed realities - is off to a great start! Really clear presentation! I like how you incorporate the perspective of a leading social constructivist, I think it must be crucial to not denigrate or misconstrue either half of this recursively-generated web we're all weaving together 😀 Can you suggest any tentative maxims that we could create/discover? I personally feel that much of "common sense" or idiomatic expression carries great wisdom, if properly distinguished according to this clear paradigm, eg: the golden rule, or "the more things change the more they stay the same", or "you cant take it with you" 😀 Constructions of language (any and every language) that we find to have weathered the repeated batteries of our social mores, must thereby be caught in the act of preserving some fundamental truth! For the context of clinical therapy, as surely with all human contexts, this paradoxically gives the agents more and less agency than they had assumed 😀

These are fantastic! Thank you for bringing these ideas together in such a clear way.

Straight to the point or maybe you hit on my own biases and beliefs. Doesn't all comes down to what works for the individual?

Thank you for this video it’s very well thought out much appreciate it. Is there a link to, or can you provide the name of one or more of your works where the studies on paraprofessionals are cited?

Donald Meichenbaum is one of the few brave scholars who have embraced the new paradigm late in their careers

What a relief, beliefs drive behaviors not thoughts, emotions, experience, training, or techniques.

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I so appreciate this video being posted ... I appreciate the pauses, and care taken in composing/ constructing the presentation, and responses to questions posed as well. Great video, clarified a lot, and opened up lots of new, interesting questions ...

Delighted that you are distilling and disseminating these important thoughts via in such an accessible way.

Excellent! Thank you so much for posting!

Fantastic talk, profound knowledge! Until now I only had the pleasure to listen to Scott Miller and Bruce Wampold speak about the Contextual Model. To hear Dr. Bacon speak about it helped me develop an even deeper understanding, but boy, there is a long way ahead.

thanks for the upload