Cognitive Defusion

Cognitive Defusion is a technique that dates back to the origins of Cognitive Therapy. Detect thoughts and see them as hypotheses instead of objective facts. In this PsychologyOnline article, we will talk about this technique called Cognitive Defusion.

Cognitive Defusion

Classic cognitive therapy and current Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies aim to control, eliminate, reduce the frequency, intensity, etc., of negative thoughts and replace them with more desirable ones (through dispute or debate, rationalization, logic). , etc).

Sometimes it doesn’t work: Increases in both intensity, frequency, as well as duration, and even accessibility to unwanted private events (thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, etc.). – On the contrary, from the perspective of TTG (Functional Contextualism), the objective of Cognitive Defusion techniques is reduce the credibility and impact of negative thoughts; NOT through dispute and logic but by learning to see thoughts as what they are, thoughts, and not as they say they are. In other words, they attempt to alter the negative functions of thoughts rather than their form, content, or frequency. It is about not changing the content of the thought but the relationship we have with that thought.

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