Jeffrey M. Schwartz

need to get back to an in-sold psychology

I love when I meet college students who are majoring in psychology because I jump straight into some of these big questions with them and that most of them have no idea how to answer some of these questions and aren't even aware of And some of the other work of psychologists and psychiatrists like Jeffrey Schwartz aren't even aware of the fact that, you know, his book, You Are Not Your Brain, which does demonstrate that you are a soul who has some freedom.

And the way we freely choose to think can actually rewire and restructure our physical brain, which kind of starts looking miraculous.

But this is all backed up in academic work.

If you read John and Janie Street's book, I forget the exact title, it's on counseling women.

If you read their chapter on OCD, they take Jeffrey Schwartz's model that he develops in BrainLock and they say this is an incredibly useful model.

And it could be said, oh, well, that's medical.

Well, actually, Schwartz's model is a psychological intervention.

And so my question became is, how can I help this person process the underlying fear and respond differently to the OCD without making the treatment overwhelming? That's how distancing got developed from this one client.

And so the work of Jeffrey Schwartz, from 1996 on OCD influenced the development of the distancing technique.

And it was about understanding that these are OCD thoughts, that they're not real in the sense of, I don't need to believe them.

And that was how it got developed.