Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind - The Julian Jaynes Society Podcast 06. Jaynesian Therapeutics and the Self-healing Mind: Part 1
Jaynesian Therapeutics and the Self-healing Mind: Part 1
Harnessing the Active Ingredients of Psychotherapy
By Brian J. McVeigh
Read by Michael R. Jacobs (www.theungoogleable.com). His YouTube channel is www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen.
It is an interesting fact that the success rates for different psychotherapies are about the same. This is why researchers have searched for “common factors” that facilitate the healing process. The goal, then, should be to discover the common “active ingredients” of all therapies, e.g., the personality of the therapist, the “therapeutic alliance.” Could consciousness itself constitute a common factor that can be cultivated in order to repair troubled minds? Could consciousness underlie the effectiveness of the self-healing mind?
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