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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 October 2010 10:48:51PM 1 point [-]

Check out Learning Methods-- it's something like Cognitive Behavior Therapy, except that the idea is that if you pin down a habitual obstructive thought very precisely and then analyze it thoroughly, it's no longer attractive.

Comment author: erratio 10 October 2010 11:15:30PM 0 points [-]

Thanks! I'm already CBTing but as I said, more weapons never hurt. :) What would you identify as the main differences between the two?

Comment author: PowerCorrupts 09 November 2010 07:02:36PM 0 points [-]

What flavor of CBT? Burns? MoodGym?

Comment author: erratio 09 November 2010 08:53:02PM 1 point [-]

There are flavours?

Anyway, my therapist likes to use modules from the Centre for Clinical Intervention.

Thanks for the reference to MoodGym, I'll check it out over the next couple of days.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 October 2010 11:52:55PM 0 points [-]

Learning Methods is a lot more meticulous about tracking down exactly what people are thinking that gets in their way, and identifying errors in that thinking.

What I've seen of CBT seems like much simpler pattern matching.