The Disarming Technique

The disarming technique is finding some truth in what the other person is saying, even if it seems totally unreasonable or unfair. Once you acknowledge the truth in the criticism, the person will stop believing it. And i i can give a pretty dramatic example of that in my own clinical work. I treated a young woman will call a jan s who was was an emigrant from from europe and hadad gotten citizenship here. She also had what's called borderline personality disorder,. For listeners who aren't familiar with it, it's a particularly severe form of depression where a person is depressed pretty much every day.