Planets in Therapy: Predictive Technique and the Art of Counseling by Greg Bogart

Author:Greg Bogart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ibis Press

MERCURY AND COGNITIVE THERAPY

To achieve mental health we need to examine and reorganize unhealthy patterns of thinking. Cognitive therapy is a process of examining our thoughts to understand unhealthy patterns of cognition, such as overgeneralizing, catastrophizing, or erroneous perceptions. Malu, a depressed woman who had transiting Saturn in Virgo square her Mercury in Gemini, arrived early in the morning for a doctor's appointment and saw her doctor in the parking lot. He didn't say hello to her. She went into a tailspin of hopeless thoughts, thinking to herself “He doesn't like me, nobody likes me. No one would ever want to be close to me. I'm so horrible….” I said, “Is it possible that you don't know why he didn't say hello. He might have just been in a really bad traffic jam and be all frazzled. He might have had an argument with his wife on his cell phone while in the car. He might be bracing himself to see a lot of clients scheduled back to back all day. He might have a splitting headache. So you don't really know if he didn't speak to you for one of those reasons, instead of all those things you believe.” I told her I had recently seen a bumper sticker that read, “Don't believe everything you think!” Examining Malu's negative thoughts and self-limiting beliefs was a basis for improved mental health.

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