Talk:Insight-oriented psychotherapy

This article is weak
I have added Template:Expert needed and downgraded the article class from start to stub. The article body needs to be expanded considerably by a psychotherapy expert, and better-quality sources are needed. Biogeographist (talk) 12:41, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Clarification needed
In the article, there is a section that reads as follows:

"Because patients may face a lot of epistemic pressure[clarification needed] in the therapeutic encounter,..."

I hope to start conversation about the "clarification needed" or "Please clarify" tag  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmbirkhead (talk • contribs) 05:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

I read a good portion of the cited article and it seems that the original author of this section, when referring to "epistemic pressure" was probably referring to a patient being subtly moved to a new way of knowing truth. Several examples of epistimic problems are given in the original article and there is a large discussion of epistemic palcebo -- where a patient comes to know some new insight about themselves that is patently false, but they have an emotional reaction to this knew pseudotruth which reinforces their belief that the insight is in-fact true. Furthermore, the fact that a patient came to identify a new pseudotruth--which they believe to be true--reinforces the belief that the pathway that brought them to that knew pseudotruth is a valid approach to knowing and learning new truth.

epistemology is a study of how you might come to know something and how certain you can be of the things you learn. Therefore, the epistemic pressure is likely the pressure to come to know false-truths via an invalid approach to knowledge and certainty.

I say all of that to open public discussion. If you agree, but can condense this into a smaller explanation, please make the edit (and delete this from the talk page). If you disagree, please state why — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmbirkhead (talk • contribs) 05:54, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

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