What is a paradoxical intention?
paradoxical intention is a therapeutic approach in psychotherapy conceived by Victor Frankl, a famous Austrian neurologist who survived imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II and became a world famous psychiatrist. Frankl's approach to overcoming neurotic ideas or habits is to indicate that a patient experiencing such conditions will immerse themselves in a source of fear. By confronting you directly at a conscious level, it is believed that the neurotic custom can be easily seen and prevented in the future. Such treatment of paradoxical intention is part of Frančel's wider approach to mental treatment, which has become known as logotherapy. Logotherapy focuses on finding the meaning of a person in a person where he is considered a dominant power that creates life and allows individuals to rise above their concerns and perceived restrictions.
Psychodynamics of how the individual copes with unsolvable problems creates a condition where the problem is likely to be maintained for an indefinite period. It's because the mechanicSki management supports mental adaptation to the conditions of the problem instead of promoting change to avoid this. Looking at the opposite of what a person would normally do or feel in a given situation, a revelation of current behavior can be obtained.
An example would be someone who is constantly overeating, but mentally avoids reality that they do so by consciously not focusing on food, creating a latent sense of deprivation and anxiety about food in the mind. The paradoxical intention would order an individual to intentionally think about eating as much as possible and eating everything he could, and that has the least amount of appeal. This can create a revelation of the feeling of awareness and repeling of the behavior of the first step on the way to his defeat.
The use of a paradoxical intention is sometimes compared to a thought experiment in a philosophy known as a toxin puzzle Kavka, named after Gregory Kavka, an American philosopher that tutabout the idea invented in 1983. The toxin puzzle basically states that if a person has a firm mental commitment, he or she does not actually create, he or she has to create, or she has to create an irristic state, or she has an irristic state. Overcoming the debilitating practices therefore requires that individuals be entertained by what is currently perceived as irrational ideas, and to make a commitment to them to force themselves to see reality in new light and start a change.
From the point of view of Frankl, however, the paradoxical intention and logotherapy were not aiming to free people in suffering. Instead, Frankl defined all pathological behavior as habits and conditions of thg neglected individuals about the meaning of their lives. Encouraging people to face their fears, open its form of psychotherapy new possibilities of existenceE and a broader understanding of reality that can bring more purpose to live, although it can eventually bring further suffering in this process.