Disrupting entrenched thought patterns

... wholeness, a specific pattern or order, and the notion of stuck states. To address the challenges of recovering from the latter, psychotherapeutic intervention can be thought of as aiding recovery via intentionally causing an initial and arguably vital destabilization. Indeed, empirical...

... measures the visual dimension thought to be driving detection differences. The subject’s failure to discriminate this dimension can be taken as evidence that stimuli were truly processed unconsciously. The underlying principle is that more ‘meaningful’ stimuli are brought into consciousness more quickly...