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Dr Steven Phillipson - Magical thinking in OCD (Ep183)

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The Importance of Separating Out Brain Voice

The entire basis of treatment is the idea that we can choose to react to the brain functioning in a way that neutralizes it and demonstrates its irrelevance. It's funny because people, like if I stand on a balcony or if I'm standing on a train tracks, my brain voice says to me, jump almost all the time. So this is just kind of a foundation of how we work with any particular spike theme and particularly with things such as magical thinking.

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