Sublime

Essentially it is safer to hang onto a learned response, even if it is self-destructive. Moreover, you can eliminate having to change and take responsibility if you keep the erroneous zones intact.

Staying on top of what is wrong with us gives us the sense that we are controlling our impulses, disguising our weaknesses and possibly improving our character.

Research using IRAP tests has shown that our quick relational responses (or subconscious thoughts, if you will) often predict our behavior more strongly than claims we make about what we think—what RFT researchers call our extended and elaborated relational responses.

ORIENTATION 2. COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPIES

Cette phrase a inspiré à Ellis Le Modèle A-B-C (The Albert Ellis A-B-C Model), qui est l’ouvrage de référence des TCC : nous vivons une expérience (A) ; nous l’interprétons (B) ; nous ressentons une réponse émotionnelle en lien avec notre interprétation (C). Ellis, en s’inspirant des stoïciens, a avancé l’idée que nous pouvons influer sur nos émoti

What makes logical sense for action in the outside world does not necessarily make psychological sense in the world of thoughts and feelings.

Not all emotional disturbance stems from arrogant thinking. But much of it does. And when you demand that you must not have failings, you can also demand that you must not be neurotic. Stevie, for example, clearly saw that he was neurotic—and then put himself down for being disturbed and hence made himself more neurotic.

Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it.