Clarity comments on Open thread, Sep. 12 - Sep. 18, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clarity 13 September 2016 11:27:41PM 0 points [-]

What's the best ways to upgrade my defence mechanisms from immature splitting and projection in addition to seeing a psychologist?

Comment author: HungryHippo 15 September 2016 04:50:43PM 0 points [-]

In David Burn's book "Feeling Good", a CBT self-help book, he teaches how to identify 10 cognitive distortions in our thinking patterns and develops practices for counteracting them.

Among the distortions he identifies are all-or-nothing-thinking (i.e. splitting). I don't remember if he says anything about projection specifically, but another of the distortions is mind-reading/jumping-to-conclusions, which at least is in ballpark of falsely attributing mental states to others.

The context of the book is to alleviate your own depression, but it is also really interesting from an anti-biasing perspective.