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Self-Awareness, Inhibition paradigm - in Niederhoffer/Pennebaker - p.577,…
Self-Awareness
Obstacles
Self-deception - includes self-ignorance but adds a false or distorted self-image; short cut usually used to preserve or enhance self-esteem.
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Obscurity - 'I don't understand' - mental processes we do not yet fully aware of or understand; they may be suppressed or not yet clearly formulated in our consciousness; manifests in fantasies, daydream, dreams.
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Neurobiology
When self-aware, neo-cortex is active and monitoring the emotion
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Niederhoffer / Pennebaker - p.576 - our brains are built to and/or minds trained to move towards completion, resulting in endless obsession or preoccupation to figure out why event happened and how we can cope with it. Freud > dreams as ruminations of unfinished things
Pieterse Critical for the therapist to manage their countertransferential reactions in a way that does not thwart the therapeutic process
Relating to oneself
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Self-rejection
Rejection doesn’t make the rejected part disappear; its influence only shifts to the subconscious level and in that way often grows.
Leads to attempts to take short cuts, which may lead to the creation of a false personality > self-deceit
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Guilt and shame
Used positively, they can instigate positive change. Forgiving and accepting oneself on the basis that you are now a different person from when the mistake was made.