Seeing the World How They Want to See It: Self-Deceptive Thinking
Disordered characters often live in a world of their own fantasy, adhering to the belief that “thinking makes it so.”
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Disordered characters often live in a world of their own fantasy, adhering to the belief that “thinking makes it so.”
Counselling may be a kind of learning process — of learning to live differently. But what kind of learning is this? The kind of learning we do in school? Or some other kind?
We usually come to counselling with a pain or problem we want fixed. It may be that we find we need to unlearn patterns of feeling and behaviour. It may be that counselling is more about unlearning than learning.
Despite frequent social sanctions, aggressive personalities often persist in their aggressive defiance of society’s rules and limits.
Most of the difficulties in our lives we overcome by learning about them in some way. Should we adopt this approach to relationships and counselling?