Paradoxical Intention
Indications: mainly compulsive disorders and anxiety, also vegetative syndromes.
Guided by the physician or therapist, clients learn to overcome their obsessions or anxieties by self-distancing and humorous exaggeration, thus enabling them to mentally adapt to the conditions of the problem instead of promoting change to avoid it.
Dereflection
Indications: Sexual disorders and sleeplessness, also anxiety disorders.
Frankl’s antidote to hyperreflection is dereflection. Take the focus off of yourself and reflect instead on the task at hand. Lose yourself. Be present in the experience itself. Focus on the music, on your love for the other person or on whatever you are doing and then, through losing your self you find yourself. You actualize yourself only when the goal is notself-actualization and you’re not thinking about yourself at all but only about the value and meaning in the task at hand.
Indications: mainly compulsive disorders and anxiety, also vegetative syndromes.
Guided by the physician or therapist, clients learn to overcome their obsessions or anxieties by self-distancing and humorous exaggeration, thus enabling them to mentally adapt to the conditions of the problem instead of promoting change to avoid it.
Dereflection
Indications: Sexual disorders and sleeplessness, also anxiety disorders.
Frankl’s antidote to hyperreflection is dereflection. Take the focus off of yourself and reflect instead on the task at hand. Lose yourself. Be present in the experience itself. Focus on the music, on your love for the other person or on whatever you are doing and then, through losing your self you find yourself. You actualize yourself only when the goal is notself-actualization and you’re not thinking about yourself at all but only about the value and meaning in the task at hand.