Paradoxical intention

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A paradoxical intention is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Viktor Frankl in which the client is instructed to intentionally exercise a neurotic behavior with the aim of overcoming it. According to Frankl, this technique can be used to break the vicious circle of anticipatory anxiety, i.e. the fear of fear. Many authors see the paradoxical intention as a specific technique of the so-called paradoxical intervention .

Frankl illustrates the method, among other things, in a consultation with a student who appears to be extremely nervous. Contrary to normal habit, he asks them to make an effort to be even more nervous. The student complies. After a second request to try harder to get even more nervous, the student has to laugh and her nervousness is gone.

“ This logotherapeutic technique is based on the beneficial influence of the phobic patient's attempt to wish for what he is so afraid of. In this way, fear is ultimately taken out of the sails of fear. "

- Viktor Frankl (Collected Works. Volume 4) :

See also

literature

  • Viktor Frankl : Medical pastoral care. Basics of logotherapy and existential analysis. Last edition. Status: 2005. In: Viktor Frankl: Gesammelte Werke. Volume 4. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78619-1 , p. 311 (494-511) (section: "The logotherapeutic technique of paradoxical interpretation")

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankl, VE (1939): On the drug support of psychotherapy in neuroses, Swiss archive for neurology and psychiatry, 43, 26–31
  2. ^ Frankl, VE (1975): Paradoxical intention and dereflection. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, Division of Psychotherapy (29), American Psychological Association, 12, 226
  3. ↑ Shoham, V., & Rohrbaugh, MJ (2001). Paradoxical Intervention. In WE Craighead & CB Nemeroff (Eds.), The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Vol. III, 3rd edition (pp. 1129-1132). New York: Wiley & Sons.
  4. ^ Seltzer, LF (1986). Paradoxical strategies in psychotherapy: A comprehensive overview and guidebook. John Wiley & Sons.
  5. ↑ DeBord, JB (1989). Paradoxical interventions: A review of the recent literature. Journal of Counseling & Development, 67 (7), 394-398.
  6. ^ Frankl, VE (1975): Paradoxical intention and dereflection. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, Division of Psychotherapy (29), American Psychological Association, 12, 226
  7. ^ Viktor Frankl : Medical pastoral care. Basics of logotherapy and existential analysis. Last edition. Status: 2005. In: Viktor Frankl : Gesammelte Werke. Volume 4. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78619-1 , p. 311 (495)