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While I quite like memory reconsolidation, and Coherence Therapy is probably the roughly closest academic therapy to what I do with my clients, I think it's also important to note that these issues are often incentivized by many (and potentially hundreds of) overlapping unconscious predictions.

There can be many many predictions resulting in a particular anxiety. All of which need to be found, and then integrated. I've helped people outgrow multiple interlocking feedback loops that were incentivizing their self-loathing and depression, for example.

The mind is a distributed system, and most of what happens happens in parallel.

https://chrislakin.blog/p/unconscious-predictions

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good callout, schemas can overlap and intermingle tons. the authors talk a lot about how when a schema *seems* to be updated in a session but later the client shows signs of reversal, it's usually because *some other* schema was holding the first schema in place, so the focus moves towards targeting that schema instead.

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Thanks for writing this.

I've never had much faith in therapy. While the source of problems and even a specific root cause can often be identified, I feel transformation is lacking.

As someone who suffers from similar anxiety issues to the guy in the first example, I've been looking for methods of self-healing for some time now and so I'm going to check out the book.

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