{"id":450,"date":"2015-08-10T04:54:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/?p=450"},"modified":"2015-08-10T04:54:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:54:12","slug":"awareness-as-curative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/2015\/08\/awareness-as-curative\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness as curative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a common thread to all theses (types) of treatment? A common thread to psychoanalytic, cognitive, humanistic, transpersonal? In a very general sense, yes. It is this: <em>awareness in and of itself is curative<\/em>. Every therapeutic school &#8230; attempts, in its own way, to allow consciousness to encounter (or re encounter)facets of experience that were previously alienated, malformed, distorted, or ignored. This is <em>curative<\/em> for a basic reason: <em>by experiencing these facets fully<\/em>, consciousness can genuinely acknowledge these elements and thereby let go of them: see them as an object, and thus differentiate from them, de-embed from them, <em>transcend them<\/em> &#8211; and then integrate them into a more encompassing, compassionate embrace. Ken Wilber, 2000, <em>Integral Psychology<\/em>, p.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a common thread to all theses (types) of treatment? A common thread to psychoanalytic, cognitive, humanistic, transpersonal? In a very general sense, yes. It is this: awareness in and of itself is curative. Every therapeutic school &#8230; attempts, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/2015\/08\/awareness-as-curative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness-acceptance-and-change-in-therapy","category-compassion-containment-and-curiosity-in-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}