REBT and Positive Psychology

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Hi All,I got an used copy or Russ's Confidence Gap and read about 1/2 of it.  Russ's views on self esteem and self acceptance is so similar to Albert Ellis's.  So I started reading Ellis' books again.  I've read almost all of his previous books and really enjoy it immensely.  REBT is different than ACT but in so many ways it overlaps.  Ellis wrote a lot about thinking about your thinking and thinking about your thinking about your thinking.  This is similar to ACT observing self.  Russ on a podcast talked about noticing he is in a conversation and noticing that he is noticing he is in conversation.  Also, Ellis talked about accepting the sinner but not the sin - results in defusion.

In my experience, for me, REBT has been the most helpful and so I return to that.  I like the more directness of it.  I do yoga and meditation so I do get the mindful stuff that way.Now after listening to Russ being interviewed on the podcast Shrink Rap Radio, I got interested in Positive Psychology again.  I've read some on this before.  I've read most of all of Seligman's books even before Authentic Happiness.  I listened to audio book Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson a year or two ago.  I'd like to revisit that again.  I like the emphasis on positive emotions.  It seem so much of psychology is focus on the negative.  ACT it seems could focus and accept both positive and negative but this list seems to be mostly on the negative.  I know some of you might argue that is not so but even what seems to be positive is not so much.

I find RFT and FC very interesting and so will continue my study of that.  I have a couple books by a Swede - forgot name Niklas something- and will continue reading those.  Otherwise I might not be too involved with ACT.  I will sort of follow along here for a while.

I don't want to come on here, a forum for ACT and talk a whole lot about REBT and positive psychology so I probably won't post much.  If I do seem to talk too much about REBT and PP, then or the moderators, please tell me and I'll cut back.

Thanks!