The goal isn’t for the thoughts to be gone. The goal is for the thoughts to be meaningless and ineffective, recovery is a state where a person’s brain might produce these associations rather than 40 to 50 times a day, to possibly twice a day, sometimes twice a week.

Steven Phillipson

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Traditional therapy, like analysis, is not only ineffective but highly detrimental, to look into the nature of the thoughts as if there’s some underlying issue going on— or an analyst saying, ‘Oh, if you have thoughts about harming your child, we need to look deeper into your underlining anger issues’— that’s really not what’s going on. They’re still trying to seethe thoughts as the problem, which they’re not.

Steven Phillipson

When patients engage in this treatment in a very aggressive way the brain very quickly recognizes that these ideas and this terror experience is no longer necessary to protect so it naturally shuts it down.

Steven Phillipson