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> It seems to be enough only in the more benign cases. you're assuming a false relationship between level of consciousness and severity. Case in point: war vet
by digler999 10y ago
> It seems to be enough only in the more benign cases.
you're assuming a false relationship between level of consciousness and severity. Case in point: war veteran with PTSD. His PTSD is from getting shot at, not from a disrupted relationship with his mother when he was 5.
case 2: patient has a phobia of flying. therapist gradually deconstructs the phobia using CBT methods, until the patient finally gets in a plane and flies.
Subconscious issues are not correlated to severity.
- surement 10y agoYour claim is that one's depression, anxiety, paranoia, etc., caused by post-traumatic stress, is purely the result of conscious thoughts, even though the individual knows, consciously, that they are no longer in immediate danger? As for the second case, the "deconstruction" of a phobia is more characteristic of psychoanalysis than CBT.