Inner Monologues with Ethan Kross, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Self-Distancing Can Help You Deal With Problems
Self-distancing is the ability to focus on yourself from an more objective, psychologically removed perspective. One tool that we've studied along those lines is language, is the inner voice. In a certain sense, there are ways of using the inner voice to combat the toxic inner voice when it runs away. It involves using your own name or other non-first person pronouns and helping people think about experiences in a more healthy way.
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