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The Paradoxical Intention of Self-Detachment

Paradoxical intention is a logotherapeutic technique that can be used to treat obsessive-compulsive and sleep disturbance conditions. The treatment makes use of the specifically human capacity for self-detachment inherent in a sense of humor, says Dr. Eva Cosdera. By means of this logo-therapeutic technique, my staff at the Vienna Polyclinic Hospital has succeeded in bringing relief even in obsessive-compulsory neuroses of a most severe degree and duration," she writes.

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