Dr. Russ Harris

Harris qualified as a medical doctor in Britain, moved to Australia and left general practice to teach Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a behavioural approach that treats difficult thoughts as things to make room for rather than to argue with or eliminate. The Happiness Trap is the version for readers, and it opens by saying that chasing good feelings is itself a large part of the problem. ACT Made Simple is the training text for clinicians. He runs workshops and an online training business built on the method.