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Will Curvis

Will Curvis

Clinical neuropsychologist and clinical tutor at Lancaster University specializing in brain injury rehabilitation and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

Jun 1, 2026

28:23
No worries.
28:23
Um, yeah, I, I think, I think for me, cognitive fusion is one of the, the most useful and, and, like, relevant, uh, elements of ACT.
28:32
That's probably the thing I find myself talking about more than anything else.
28:35
I think it, it, it flows really nicely from conversations we were having earlier about relational frame theory, because I think if you take that idea of relational networks, things that are coming into our mind, we put into networks.
28:48
We do that according to RFT.
28:50
We do that via a process of kind of, um, making associations.
28:53
This goes with that.

24 MINS LATER

53:10
So I'd like to hear you both talk about this cycle, cognitive fusion, experiential avoidance, some s- more specific examples that come up, people who have various cognitive impairments, emotional sequelae after brain injury.

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