Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Cognitive Defusion in Practice
John T. Blackledge · 2015
78/100
👍 Worth It
The first book-length clinician's guide to cognitive defusion within ACT therapy, filled with real therapist-client dialogue and professionally endorsed by the ACBS community as filling a genuine gap in the literature. It's miscategorized as self-help — this is a graduate-level clinical reference, not a reader self-help book — but for therapists and counseling students it's a high-value resource with strong credentials behind it. Lay readers should look elsewhere.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness79
Craft & writing75
Originality74
Evidence & accuracy79
Hype vs delivers76
Age-fit88
👁 Human-eye gut-check76
Penny’s verdict78
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