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30 Jun 2026 — 4 min read

The Five Year Old Who Couldn't Handle It: A Teaching Case in Defusion and Self as Context

This case offers a clear teaching example of how functional contextualism guides clinical attention, and how a session can move from defusion into self as context without drifting into inner child work or insight oriented processing.
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