Learning technique

An important technique of rational emotive therapy is training. After the initial stage, the psychotherapist conducts an active retraining of the client. The psychotherapist shows that client violations are rooted in the absence of logic, and illogical internal verbalization contributes to their maintenance.
“Patients should be shown that their internalized statements are illogical and unrealistic in a certain sense ... An effective psychotherapist is obliged to gradually debunk the past and in particular the present logical thinking of his patient, his self-deprecating verbalization with:
a) attracting the attention of the patient;
b) demonstration of their role in the origin and maintenance of its violations and misfortunes;
c) a specific demonstration of signs of a lack of logic in the internalized phrases of the patient;
d) teaching the patient to rethink, challenge and counteract these (and other similar) phrases so that thoughts become more logical and effective. ”
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“Rationally emotive psychotherapy counteracts the irrational notions of a person in two main ways.
1) The psychotherapist plays the role of a counter-propagandist who directly opposes and denies the self-destructive propaganda and superstitions that the patient initially learned and which he continues to instill in himself now.
2) The psychotherapist encourages, convinces and even insists that the patient take certain actions (for example, do something he is afraid of), which in itself serves as a good counter-argument against erroneous beliefs. ”
Thus, a rational emotive psychotherapist uses logic and reasoning, training, persuasion, confrontation, dissuasion and prescription of behavior in order to show the client the irrationality of his philosophy, demonstrate its connection with emotional disorders, change the client's mindset and, consequently, his emotions, replacing the irrational representations are rational, logical (Ellis, 1989). In addition, as mentioned earlier, the psychotherapist goes further in educating the client and, as a preventive measure, deals with him the main irrational ideas inherent in our culture, offering more efficient rational ones.
Thus, any method or technique can be used to help the client see, challenge and change his irrational assumptions or beliefs. Customers can literally be forced to "look at simple exclamation sentences that they address to themselves to awaken the emotions of anger and hostility."
"So, the client can tell, for example, the following:" My wife accused me of having been unfair to her, which made me angry because it was completely untrue, and she ... " I immediately interrupted him and asked the question: “What exactly angered you? How could your wife's false accusations hurt you? You probably wanted to say that your wife unfairly blamed you, and after that you angered yourself, stubbornly repeating to yourself:
1) “I do not like her unfair accusation” and
2) “Since I don’t like it, she shouldn’t do that.” Is this not what upset you, your own irrational beliefs, and not its accusation? "