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Russ Harris is a medical doctor, therapist, and trainer in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He is internationally known for his books and workshops on psychological well-being and personal development.
Known for: The Happiness Trap, ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
Books by Russ Harris
The Happiness Trap
The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris is a practical and deeply reassuring guide to a problem many people barely notice they have: the exhausting struggle to feel good all the time. Drawing on Acceptance ...
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ACT Made Simple es una guía práctica y accesible para comprender y aplicar la Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT). Russ Harris explica los principios fundamentales de ACT, incluyendo la aceptació...
The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
This book explores how to overcome self-doubt and fear through the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It provides practical exercises and psychological insights to help readers bui...
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The Myth of Constant Happiness
One of the most damaging ideas in modern life is that happiness should be our normal state. From childhood, many people absorb the message that a successful life is a cheerful one: movies end in emotional resolution, advertisements link products to joy, and self-help culture often implies that negat...
From The Happiness Trap
Why the Mind Creates Suffering
Your mind is not broken because it worries, compares, criticizes, and anticipates disaster. Harris explains that the human mind evolved primarily to keep us safe, not to keep us content. It constantly scans for threats, remembers painful experiences, and predicts what could go wrong. That capacity h...
From The Happiness Trap
Emotions Are Not the Enemy
Many people organize their lives around avoiding uncomfortable emotions, yet those emotions are often unavoidable side effects of caring deeply. Harris invites readers to rethink the role of feelings such as fear, sadness, guilt, shame, and anger. These states are not evidence that life is going wro...
From The Happiness Trap
Acceptance Creates Room to Live
Acceptance is often misunderstood as passive resignation, but Harris uses the term in a far more empowering way. Acceptance means making space for unpleasant thoughts, emotions, memories, and sensations without struggling against them unnecessarily. It is an active willingness to experience what is ...
From The Happiness Trap
Defusion Weakens Unhelpful Thoughts
Thoughts become dangerous when we fuse with them—when we treat them as literal truths, commands, or accurate reflections of who we are. Harris calls the alternative defusion: learning to see thoughts as mental events rather than absolute reality. This is one of the most practical and transformative ...
From The Happiness Trap
Presence Interrupts Automatic Living
A large part of suffering happens not in the present moment but in mental time travel. We replay old mistakes, rehearse future disasters, and miss the life unfolding right in front of us. Harris argues that learning to be present is not a mystical luxury; it is a practical skill that reduces entangl...
From The Happiness Trap
About Russ Harris
Russ Harris is a medical doctor, therapist, and trainer in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He is internationally known for his books and workshops on psychological well-being and personal development.
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