Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Carl Robbins
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Is There a Reassurance Compulsion?
In ICBT, people tell themselves stories to reassure themselves that they're not a serial killer or pedophile. The alternative story is based on what you can actually observe about yourself when it comes to the vulnerable self-theme. We are so good at constructing these imagined scary stories that for many of us, we need to spend some time constructing these sort of reality based stories. In MBCT, which in many ways is the fellow traveler with ICBT, he frames OCD as a trust disorder.
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