Dr Steven Phillipson: Brain Voice vs Gatekeeper Voice (#275)
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The Nature of Anxiety
The brain is almost exactly like a computer there are nerve cells in it that basically fire or don't fire so it's almost an exact replication of a computer's zero. The goal of treatment is to really show the brain the irrelevance of its associations if we're going to decommission the machine to being highly alarmed by its own associations and really give the brain an opportunity to become habituated and accepting of its own associations.
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